Sunday, June 30, 2013

Kerry and Morsi

No connection?
Wrong
The biggest Arab Democracy in the world is teetering on Civil war once again. A democraticaly ( well sort off )elected Morsi in Egypt is in danger of being toppled as Egypt sinks into chaos once more.
The United States Secratary of State is expecting Israel to believe in the integrity and stsbiity of the smallest democracy ( well sort off) in the Arab world.
The fledging Palestinian Authority which calls itself the state of Palestine claims it has the ability and resources to stay stable for some time to come
. Seeing what is happening in Egypt an around the Arab world makes anyone normal skeptical as to the viability of any agreement. Any agreement needs to be based on the signees ability to carry out and ensure implementation. Israel claims that all real secuity issues be garunteed by the Israel Defense Forces. The Palestinian Authority disagrees with this demand compeletly.
This is one of the fundemenatal disagreements ( not the only one ) that will stop any real progress in peace negotiations. John Kerry can shuttle back and forth as much as he wants. The facts on the ground remain the same.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Does anyone KERRy

Does anyone really care that the unted states chief diplomat John Kerry is going to spend some American Tax payer money visiting the middle east in the next few days? Whats he coming for? To resume peace talks of course. Is this the 10th time, 20th time, 100th time that peace negotiations have been promised, asked for or discussed? What is he really thinking? Is he stupid? Alas he may be simply living in a fanatasy world that he will succeed where so many have failed. He will not. There is no chance. There was never a real chance at a two state solution but now both sides are saying that this is clearly impossible. We need to get used to the notion of annexation of Judea and Samaria and giving citizenship to all who want it. We need to bring Jews here to Israel and possibly give the vote to Israelis abroad. If Mr Kerry wishes to develop a one state solution model then he will be doing something productive. Hey, he needs to do somehting with his time.