Tag: Occupied Territories

Peace In Our Time?

It was untrue in Chamberlain’s day as it is today…..while all eyes were on South Africa the world continued to turn and people continue to kill, die and maim……so in honor of them I will concentrate on the Middle East and its problems…..

How long have we been waiting for a peaceful Middle East?  50 years?  More?

Every president has gone into the process with hopes and ideas…..and every time they fall like snow in winter……the Israelis hate Palestinians……Palestinians despise Israelis……and the world sits on their hands and waits for some sort of progress……mostly NO one in the western world wants to offend Israel……sorry, I have NO problem telling them what I think……any debt the US owes them for WW2 has been paid in full….now they either want peace or not……if not then the world should stop doing business with dicks!

Sorry, I digress………what about peace is there any hope for it?  I will be realistic….ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Does that make me a pessimist?  NO!  It makes me a realist!

Then why?  It is not land….it is not access……it is one thing and one thing ONLY!

Would you care to take a guess at what the only reason for no peace?  (Pause here to give time for the mad dash to Google)………..WATER!  Did you get it?

Why water?  Most of the major aquifers in the region are located in the Occupied Territories which would, with a settlement, become Palestine and they could control Israel’s water……a scary thought for the Jews……

Water will determine the peace….if there is ever to be a peace then water will be the key…..and the biggest obstacle to overcome will be TRUST….neither side trust the other after decades of broken promises….unfortunately TRUST is not something that can be given lightly….both sides need to work on that one obstacle to peace and everything should quietly fall into place……

Enough said?

A New Plan For Palestinians

Mr. Fayyad is floating the proposal, first reported by Ha’aretz, just as Israel is announcing a crackdown on Islamic charities that it says are used to finance the Hamas government in Gaza. Israel has long opposed any reconciliation with Hamas, which does not recognize the Jewish state’s right to exist.

The prime minister reportedly has already sounded out the idea, aimed at bringing Hamas’s armed soldiers in Gaza under the umbrella of the Palestinian Authority, with Arab and Western diplomats

Mr. Fayyad — a pro-Western former official at the World Bank who was appointed prime minister last year as a compromise candidate belonging neither to Hamas nor to Fatah, which controls the West Bank — says his aim is to reunite Gaza and the West Bank under one government. Shortly after a bid to unite the two factions in 2007, Hamas, a fundamentalist group backed by Iran, took over Gaza and ousted all the security forces loyal to the more secular Fatah.

The new proposal includes “seeking Arab security support to help with the security situation in Gaza and deal with the obvious need for help that we have in restructuring our security capabilities and provide security services in a manner that is reassuring and effective to all during a transitional period,” Mr. Fayyad told Reuters yesterday.

This is a sound idea, but that does not mean that it will be successful.  At least the players in this conflict are trying to work out a deal for a lasting peace among themselves.  That is what needs to be done to achieve that peace.  I say let the US be a by-stander and peace is possible.