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.

Syria, Egypt and the entire mess

Its a bit incredible to think that over a thousand people have died in a chemical attack in in Syria yesterday and little has been done about it.
The same can be said for developments in Egypt in the last few weeks.
One clear message can be learned about living in the Middle East and that is that if you are weak you are doomed.
Sad but true

Ho Hum -another peace process

You need to al least appreciate the tenacity and stuborness of the United States.
Nonetheless ...
Never have so few invested so much into so low a chance to achieve. The process here is the main objective, there is no final solution ( no horrible pun intended )
These is not and cannot be a peace treaty at the end of all this
It is a non-starter as there is no place to put 700,000 Jewish settlers and no force that can remove them from there homes
There is no Israeli government that is agreeable to ceding Jerusalem to a foreign power
there is no Arab ( or Palestinian partner ) that will recognize Israel as a Jewish state or agree on less than the 1967 border lines.
So what is going on?
A peace process
Its the process that is important here
Keep talking and not fighting
Sounds great, no?
It will be good until the talks fail
Then all hell will break loose
That is the meaning of a peace process in the middle east
Talk a bit, the war
Then do it all over again
Its getting a bit boring

The Wacko Middle East

What’s the point? Peace talks are set to resume soon according to US secretary of state John Kerry. Some say that this is a miraculous turn of events and mostly unexpected.
To be completely truthful there is little point to these talks.
All sides understand that there is no REAL chance of reaching any agreement
The Arab side wishes complete control and removal of approximately 700,000 Jews who are living in pre 1967 borders. This is impossible, simply impossible.
So they talk, so what? The Arab side needs money from the US to survive and has agreed to the charade to continue to exist.
The Israeli side has gotten a promise or even a date of a US preemptive strike on Iran in exchange to restart talks and free Arab convicted terrorists.
The theater of the absurd.
The Middle East.