The Sky has not fallen

The loud and very public peace talks that were launched 9 months ago have ended in a whimper 9 months later.
Big surprise indeed!
The writer of these lines repeatedly said that there was 0 chance of any breakthrough.
Such a vast waste of time and effort on a fruitless pointless process that has been going nowhere for a very long time.
There cannot be and there never will be a two state solution.
It is an impossibility and has been for some time.
April 29th has come and gone and the Sky has not fallen.
Israel now needs to take the initiative and annex parts of Judea and Samaria.
Those parts where most of the Jewish residents live.
Offering Israeli citizenship to Arabs living in these areas.
There is a massive housing shortage that could be alleviated if a massive building initiative was launched in Judea and Samaria.
There should be emphasis on bettering the life of Arabs living in the new expanded Israel.
Better school systems, better infrastructure.
They deserve better than what they have not been given by a corrupt Palestinian authority. --

The Peace Process, Piece by Piece

It is hard to believe that anyone still thinks there is any hope of real progress in the middle east talks brokered by the United States.
On all major issues there has not been even the slightest of movement.
Nothing, Nada, Gorniest, kloom.
What has John Kerry been talking about with Abu Mazen in the thirteen different face to face meetings?
It boggles the mind the amount of time and money wasted on fruitless superfluous meeting.
Does not the American taxpayer deserve some explanation as to the huge expenditures on endless trips to nowhere?
The key issues and fundamental disagreements have stayed the same.
Israel demands a recognition as the Jewish state of the Jewish people and the other side says clearly that will not happen.
The other side demands Israeli withdrawal from all lands captured in the six-day war.
That includes East Jerusalem, the wailing wall and temple mount.
No Israeli government is willing or able to accept such conditions.
As I said in previous blogposts it is all a colossal waste of time and money.
Enough is enough, or should be.

The Peace Process

Abu Mazen has left Washington and nobody really noticed.
The Obama sponsored and Kerry driven talks are just where they were 9 months ago.
It seems incredible that so much time, energy and money can be spent on completely wasteful talks.
Is it right for the American taxpayer yo foot the bill for so many trips to the Middle East for fruitless meetings?
There will be no two state solution.
It never really had a chance to begin with.
The real question is what is to happen now?
It is likely that a new Arab INTIFADA will envelope the region as the Arab side attempts to gain statehood through international channels.
There will have to be a bold Israeli leader who is willing to make bold moves in the wake of the break down of negotiations.
This leader will need to annex to Israel parts of Judea and Samaria while slowly offering different levels of citizenship to Arabs living there.
There will need to be massive Aliya of Jews from around the world to Judea and Samaria to keep demographics in check.
How many times has Kerry been here in the last 8 months?

Sharon has died while Kerry does not know when to quit

The former Prime Minister of Israel has died, Ariel Sharon has died and few have shed real tears. Very few people came to pay repects to this man of many contridictions.
After the funeral and in the last few days there has been a minor war of attrition between the Hamas and the Israeli army.
These events ar still connected to Sharons travesty of a unilateral pullout from the Gaza Strip over eight years ago.
Any subsequent pullout by the IDF from other strategic areas will result in similiar shellings and bombings of Israel.
Kerry is obsessed with reaching a deal at any cost, reality be damned.
It is a clear dead end that Kerry is facing and all the meetings in the world will not change that stark reality.
His boss President Obama needs some " winning policy " as his presidency seem to be spinning out of control.
The real question is what happens next? When it hits the fan that Kerry has failed as he must, what then? One scenario has not been discussed to much.
As the Arab world deals with crisis after crisis it might grow tired of a problem they created to bother Israel with.
As they see that the palestinians are acting as stubborn ingrates they will wash there hands of the entire problem.
when that happens a solution based on one man one vote in large parts of Judea and samaria may happen.
there may be some demographic changes that include minor land moves.
Kerry is wasting his time and US taxpayer money.

Kerry is coming to middle east again

If at first you don't succeed try try again the old saying goes.
John Kerry is clearly obsessed with acheiving some kind of deal no matter what.
The seemingly impossible task at hand does not daunt him at all or so it seems.
What many see clearly as a clear dead end Kerry sees as a viable possibility.
There is no chance of a agreement between the sides in the forseable future.
It won't happen.
When the Arab side understands that the state they want is not going to happen for a very long time if ever it may get very violent.
Kerry is wasting American tax dollars for fruitless escapades in the Middle East.
It's about time to rethink the entire model of a two state solution.
As it won't happen the other alternative is one big state with voting rights for all.
This is a scary proposition for some but there comes a time where reality needs to be faced.
Better sooner than later.