Israel's quandry

[ChairmanAgnostic]

Some years back, Israel complained that the Palestinian leadership was too fractured, too insecure, and incapable of representing the entire collection of Palestine, ergo, talks would be pointless.

Now, with Palestine putting aside internal squabbles, unifying behind one government, Isreal complains that it cannot talk to those who make up some of the unified government.

It strikes me that Israel will say and do anything to avoid peace talks, and continually shift its positions should the Palestinians make the mistake of accepting some Israeli demand.

At some point, Israel has to recognize that it is losing support with its incredible stances, and that its reactionary positions do it no good long term.

[former9thward]

1. Hamas has sworn to the destruction of Israel.

How can one negotiate with someone who wants to kill you and tells the world that fact? Impossible. Abbas has now made his bed and will lay in it. For a while until anyway until Hamas kills him as they surely will.