What will Israel consider in order to make a peace deal?
Today, Anthony Blinkin said this:
"Israel must stop taking steps that undercut Palestinians ability to govern themselves effectively. Extremists' settler violence carried out with impunity, settlement expansion, demolitions, evictions all make it harder – not easier – for Israel to achieve lasting peace and security.
Israel must be a partner to Palestinian leaders who are willing to lead their people are living side by side in peace with Israel as neighbors. As I told the prime minister, every partner that I met on this trip said that they're ready to support a lasting solution that ends the long-running cycle of violence and ensures Israel's security. But they underscored that this can only come through a regional approach that includes a pathway to a Palestinian state. If Israel wants its Arab neighbors to make the tough decisions necessary to help ensures lasting security, Israeli leaders will have to make hard decisions themselves."
I guess you will see how much Israel wants peace. Considering that they have pretty much been in constant war for 75 years, it certainly seems like continued fighting will not achieve their goal. They are fighting an ideology, not a country, and it seems they are unwilling to consider why that ideology propagates despite their attempts to destroy it.
What kind of "hard decisions" do you think Israel is willing to make if it means lasting peace? Removing all settlements from the West Bank? Removing settlements from the Golan Heights? Allowing a two-state system and giving up control of Gaza and the West Bank? Frankly, I don't see the current Israeli administration conceding squat. As an American, I would like to see our government use it's leverage here.
"Israel must stop taking steps that undercut Palestinians ability to govern themselves effectively. Extremists' settler violence carried out with impunity, settlement expansion, demolitions, evictions all make it harder – not easier – for Israel to achieve lasting peace and security.
Israel must be a partner to Palestinian leaders who are willing to lead their people are living side by side in peace with Israel as neighbors. As I told the prime minister, every partner that I met on this trip said that they're ready to support a lasting solution that ends the long-running cycle of violence and ensures Israel's security. But they underscored that this can only come through a regional approach that includes a pathway to a Palestinian state. If Israel wants its Arab neighbors to make the tough decisions necessary to help ensures lasting security, Israeli leaders will have to make hard decisions themselves."
I guess you will see how much Israel wants peace. Considering that they have pretty much been in constant war for 75 years, it certainly seems like continued fighting will not achieve their goal. They are fighting an ideology, not a country, and it seems they are unwilling to consider why that ideology propagates despite their attempts to destroy it.
What kind of "hard decisions" do you think Israel is willing to make if it means lasting peace? Removing all settlements from the West Bank? Removing settlements from the Golan Heights? Allowing a two-state system and giving up control of Gaza and the West Bank? Frankly, I don't see the current Israeli administration conceding squat. As an American, I would like to see our government use it's leverage here.
46-50, M
