Signs of Thawing in Israeli-'Palestinian' Stance - Truth or Dare - Part III

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Oct 28, 2020 at 15:54

Signs of Thawing in Israeli-'Palestinian' Stance:
It is not all that long ago that the alliance between the 'Palestinian' Authority's stance in confronting Israel for perceived ages old issues appear now to be thawing, that when the agreements between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain (as jaded as they may seem to be to some) appeared to set aside the 'Palestinian' issues for the cause of their own jeopardies in relation to the threatening activities of the Iranian Regime's extension of proxy war activities. And when one adds the stance of the European Union and the other out-of-theater actors like Russia, China and Turkey who are not so endeared to the process of securing peace for the 'Palestinian' people, much less for the security of Israel.
But in the background are potentially sounder minds that have been assessing the damage caused to the 'Palestinian' people in the name of an Islamist world view (PA, et al) and a speculative determination of 'hostage' status can be applied in order to understand a manipulated world empathy for reasons of a lesser sense of integrity. It is a tool that has been directed towards Israel ever since the Arab rejection of the 1947 terms of reestablishing a Jewish state. Israel's agreements with the frontal phalange of Arab gulf states have in many ways, revealed a possible sense of seeking a different paradigm in which relief from the stresses of always being on the leading edge of an hostile act is set aside for a greater sense of opportunity for life that does not require always being on that edge.
As the world witnesses the progression of the negotiations with other Arab and non-Arab participants seeking their own arrangements in apparent defiance with the non-Arab Islamic affinities that have been playing the 'Palestinian' card of supposed aggression in the Judeo-Samaria region near the Jordanian border, the typical animosities of the regional conflict circulating around the 'Palestinians' now appear even more agitated for evidently an increased sense of loss of influences in keeping pressure on Israel. Among the sensitive issues regarding the 'Palestinian' issue is who has control of the Islamic site on the Temple Mount. What if in the relaxation of tensions, sharing of the site upon which the Done of the Rock might be considered as some have suggested; where does that put the proxy activities of Israel's most deadly enemies in the scheme of things in advancing peace?
How does this set the circumstances for future negotiations for peace: or war?

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