When dead is dead: the peace process

It was so predictable, it was so clear. The wasted efforts of the United States to bring a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. I use the term Palestinians very loosely to describe those Arabs living in Judea and Samaria that are negotiating with Israel.
The negotiations have hit a brick wall and some fail to recognize or admit to this reality.
They are afraid of repercussions in wake of the failure of these negotiations.
Reality needs to be looked squarely in face and dealt with.
Israel needs now to take concrete steps to counter unilateral steps taken by the other side.
Some that come to mind immediately.
1. Immediate cessation of any funds delivered to the Palestinian Authority
2. Denial of passage of political leaders of the authority in any part of Israel
3. First steps to annex parts of Judea and Samaria where most of the settlers live
4. Massive building push in all areas of Judea and Samaria
5. Retaking of Northen towns that were destroyed during former prime minister Sharons perfidious actions
6. public statement of the Israeli prime minister to the world of the reasons for all these actions
These steps will start to right the ship in terms of the national security of Israel and start to stop the notion of a Palestinian state.
Enough is enough.

Worst Nighmare

Every ones worst nightmare is getting a call that a parent has been rushed to the emergency room.
I received that call a few days ago that my mother had fallen in her house and needed to be taken to the hospital in an
ambulance.
Thoughts race through your head that terrify.
My brother attempted to calm me by saying that the injury was messy but not serious.
I nonetheless immediately drove to the emergency room in the terrified try to be optimistic mode.
My mothers head was heavily bandaged and one of her eyes was completely shut from the swelling.
I kneeled at her wheel chair and started crying as her appearance was worse than her actual condition.
As it turned out she was released from the hospital a few minutes later and is back at home now.
It was a very scary moment that I wish to avoid going forward.

Its Over

The farce that was called a peace process is over.
There was never any real hope for its success and so predictably it is over.
The Arab side demands things that are impossible from an Israeli piont of view. Something clearly that no Israeli leader could ever agree to.
It is not completely clear what will be next.
It is likey that the worst is yet to come though.
It won't be pretty.

My law suit

I am doing something that I thought I may never do.
Suing a high tech company.
The story is quite bizarre actually.
About a year ago I applied to a company in Haifa as a Internet Marketer.
Till then it was perfectly normal story.
Till I received a e-mail which said that he would not hire anyone from the " occupied territories " even if his name was Bill Gates.
This nice man was clearly discriminating based on ideology.
He clearly broke the law and now he is being sued.
The story is so crazy that it became a news item on a popular Israeli talk show.
I think my discriminating friend should start worrying.

The curse of those that participated in Jewish ethnic cleansing

Some will call it coincidence. The fact that almost every major figure involved in the forcible removal of Jews from Gush Katif and Northern Samaria has had a calamity .
Ariel Sharon- the prime minister at the time, massive stroke and eventual death.
Moshe Kazav - The president of Israel at the time, extended jail term for sexual offenses.
Head of Israeli Army- who resigned in embarrassment not long after Israel forced Jews from there homes and a long list of others... And now the prime minister who replaced Sharon and was one of the main proponents of that ethnic cleansing.
Ehud Olmert the former prime minister was convicted of taking bribes and will probably be in jail for at least five years.
There were those who warned that horror and calamity would follow.
They were laughed at and scoffed at.
Those who were happy at the plight of thousands of Jews forced from their homes.
Olmert will have a long time in jail to think about what he has done.
It is unlikely he will see the connection.
To bad.

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.