‘Absence of Courage’

Palestinians have come to conclusion that Israel and its supporters just talk for the sake of talking and do not wish to end this conflict. Notice I said Palestinians and NOT Mahmoud Abbas. They (Palestinians) have been toyed with not only by Israelis and Americans, but also by their own leaders, by other Arab countries, each for their own political reasons, and also by Islamic Republic of Iran.
If sixty years ago the UN told the Palestinians and the Israelis to go and negotiate a peace based on two state solutions, and sixty years later they are still at the exact same place that they were, what make them to do this now?
Does the Palestinian have something this time around to offer for the negotiation to go forward that they did not have for the last 60 years? Probably not.
Does the Israelis have more incentive to offer the Palestinian their statehood? Definitely yes.
The problem is that the Palestinians do not have anything to offer at the peace negotiation or anything that they could negotiate with, or any bargaining chip, except to say what they want. For instance if Israel would not give the lands before 1967, and say, we can only give you 90% of them, could the Palestinian counter offer and say okay will give you??? this??? and you give us the whole 100% of the 1967 land. No, they can not, since they do not have any chips to negotiate with. And because Palestinians believe, by virtue of their rights and a few UN resolutions to the idea that Palestine must have its 1967 boarders in order to say we have a just peace.

That is the essence of the problem. The Israelis has taken so much from the Palestinians that they have not left anything for negotiation. Palestinians have nothing to negotiate with, as they say no bargaining chips. Then you might ask how this could be solved? As always most difficult problems have simple solutions;

That simple, Israel must go back to 1967 boarders, and that would solve most of the problems, everything this side of the boarder will stay in the Palestine, and everything on the other side will stay in Israel. Settlers will have a choice to live in the New Palestine country and live like the Arabs living in Israel, or go back to Israel. Except the older problem of the refugees, which goes back much further? That problem also should be look at in the simplest way, some ideas have already surfaced, compensation for those people and their family, in fact it should be a very generous compensation offer that they (refugees) can not refuse.

Palestinians have come to conclusion that Israel and its supporters just talk for the sake of talking and do not wish to end this conflict. Notice I said Palestinians and NOT Mahmoud Abbas. They (Palestinians) have been toyed with not only by Israelis and Americans, but also by their own leaders, by other Arab countries, each for their own political reasons, and also by Islamic Republic of Iran.
If sixty years ago the UN told the Palestinians and the Israelis to go and negotiate a peace based on two state solutions, and sixty years later they are still at the exact same place that they were, what make them to do this now?
Does the Palestinian have something this time around to offer for the negotiation to go forward that they did not have for the last 60 years? Probably not.
Does the Israelis have more incentive to offer the Palestinian their statehood? Definitely yes.
The problem is that the Palestinians do not have anything to offer at the peace negotiation or anything that they could negotiate with, or any bargaining chip, except to say what they want. For instance if Israel would not give the lands before 1967, and say, we can only give you 90% of them, could the Palestinian counter offer and say okay will give you??? this??? and you give us the whole 100% of the 1967 land. No, they can not, since they do not have any chips to negotiate with. And because Palestinians believe, by virtue of their rights and a few UN resolutions to the idea that Palestine must have its 1967 boarders in order to say we have a just peace.

That is the essence of the problem. The Israelis has taken so much from the Palestinians that they have not left anything for negotiation. Palestinians have nothing to negotiate with, as they say no bargaining chips. Then you might ask how this could be solved? As always most difficult problems have simple solutions;

That simple, Israel must go back to 1967 boarders, and that would solve most of the problems, everything this side of the boarder will stay in the Palestine, and everything on the other side will stay in Israel. Settlers will have a choice to live in the New Palestine country and live like the Arabs living in Israel, or go back to Israel. Except the older problem of the refugees, which goes back much further? That problem also should be look at in the simplest way, some ideas have already surfaced, compensation for those people and their family, in fact it should be a very generous compensation offer that they (refugees) can not refuse.

It seems to me that the more money that is given to the Palestinians in aid, the more violent they become. So I fail to see how more aid will help the situation.

And I am fascinated by the comment from the palestinian official who said that the aid was a substitute for political will among the donors. Apparently a total lack of Palestinian political will is just fine by him.

I for one am pleased in this holiday season that efforts are being made to help the Palestinians by furthering the Neo Con agenda. I am also pleased that once this holiday is over both the Israelis and the Palestinians shall return to the genocide that is the historic pattern of their collectively failed cultures.

All I ask is to please stop using my tax dollars and the blood of my fellow citizens to continue this charade. I for one believe if these savages want to fight to the death, not only should it be permitted, it should be encouraged.

Perhaps by seeing the bloodshed Americans will realize that both Zionism and Muslimism are absurd forms of political theocracy, and neither has any place in a civilized world. Mixing religion and nationalism shall be the death of us all unless rational men come forward to clearly state neither side is right, because they are both wrong.

Have you ever heard about "Biting the hand that feeds you"? Why does Safieh think other nations of the world should throw money at a problem, he and all other Palestinian leaders and govenment officials avoid. His country is so far out of touch with reality and modern times, I'm embarassed for the people living there. If his goverment spent more time and resources trying to sheperd their country into into, say the 18th century, they wouldn't have to beg for help from countries they obviously hate.

I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THE PALESTINIAN OFFICIAL IS RIGHT. THEREFORE, APPROPRIATE MEASURES SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED WITHOUT DELAY BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: ALL DONATIONS MUST BE STOPPED UNTIL POLITICAL WILL BECOMES UNIVERSALLY AVAILABLE.

ONE DOUBT, HOWEVER, KEEPS NAGGING ME: HOW LONG WOULD PALESTINIANS SURVIVE WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER? SINCE FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER, THEY DON'T SEEM TO ACTUALLY KILL THEMSELVES THROUGH HARD WORK (THEY DO IT, THOUGH, WHEN FIGHTING ONE ANOTHER OR THE ISRAELIS), HOW WILL THEY EVER SURVIVE WITHOUT THE GENEROSITY OF THE WESTERN WORLD?