Palestinians certain to win recognition as a state

[Justin_Beach]

7. Anything that stops the record from skipping

I'm 42 and for most of my life (since the Carter admin) the situation has barely moved. The Palestinians throw rocks and fire rockets, the Israeli's shoot, bomb and sanction, all the while the settlements keep eating up Palestinian territory. (Territory the UN has already said they can't have).

While all of this is going on there are negotiations and rumors of negotiations, the western world wrings its hands and says that it's terrible and something should be done (while giving financial support and weapons to Israel) but it never quite amounts to anything and the whole thing just continues to repeat itself.

I can't say that this will fix anything but at this point anything that changes the dynamic has to be seen as a step forward, if only because the ground shifts a bit.