So Bush responded to the manifest failure of 15 years of peace negotiations – because remember, peace negotiations are supposed to empower moderates who don’t want to destroy the Jewish State (theoretically) – by demanding exactly the same kinds of peace negotiations. You know what would be awesome? If just for once, when Israeli security is at stake as a result of fanciful meanderings about peace and love that get Israelis killed – if just for once, when something didn’t work, the international community would try something different.
Here’s a little research assignment for you. You can take the rest of the weekend to do it if you like. Find a serious scholar or diplomat who thinks that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians can be achieved without a reunification of the West Bank and Gaza (or: find someone who thinks that a three state solution is viable). We’ll help you get started: not Syria. Because if a three state solution isn’t viable, then any Israeli concessions to Fatah will eventually be followed up by reunification between Fatah and Hamas. Which will happen on Hamas’s terms, since Hamas is vastly more powerful. Which means that Israeli concessions to Fatah are de facto concessions to the genocidal terrorists in Hamas. And everybody knows it.
References:
* Abbas: We hope Mideast summit will propel peace process ahead [Ha'aretz]
* Syria: Peace impossible with PA split [JPost]
Previously:
* Britain Presents Innovative Plan For Restarting Peace Process
* Palestinians Hold Funeral For Peace Process [Video]
* Newsflash: Arafat Wrecked the Peace Process
Cross-posted to:
* The Astute Bloggers
* Israpundit
