Chris Hedges: Why Israel Lies

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102. henry Siegman has pointed out that Israel leaders actually refused

To take a peace settlement when it was offered to them. (Link:
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/30/henry_siegman_leading_voice_of_us )
This points out one of the biggest problems: politics. And while politics can gum up the works when it is merely power and money at stake, in a situation like Israel (or two decades back, the UK and the Irish) politics ends up using bloodshed to achieve the politicians' aims.

In Israel, the making of sausage er, politics, is especially dicey. After all, in this territory, butchering those who actively make political campaigns and political candidates ineffective is the chosen way of destroying such opposition.

Between 1980 and 1999, there were over 18 moderate groups that were pushed out of existence by the fact the leaders of the groups were simply murdered. First the PLO and now a days, Hamas, are often blamed for such murderous activities, but cynics state that it is sometimes quite likely that the more extreme arm of the Likkud is behind the assassinations.