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Middle East peace is still for the dreamers as it is a delusion

39 18
yesterday

As at the time of writing Hamas are considering a peace proposal put forward by the Trump Administration, Egypt and Qatar, to which the Israeli government have agreed. Naturally there are dissenting voices within Israel’s government who may yet scupper this ‘agreement’ because i the annihilation of Hamas, has not been achieved.

We have been here several times before and even if this current proposal holds, long term peace between Israel and Palestinians is simply a delusion. There are too many influential, politically and ideologically motivated bad actors willing to and hoping for the conflict to continue. Among those most motivated to ensure conflict continuity are the United Nations ( or The Theatre of the Absurd ) and their satellite NGO’s , the global Islamist fanatics , global charities , mainstream media , academics , performing artists , cultural personalities and those protesting who need a cause to feed their insatiable appetite for hatred and chaos – currently the collective absurdly referred to as the ‘progressive left’. Without demonization of Israel they have no cause and more importantly their financial position would be badly impacted. Just think of the millionaires, indeed billionaires have been created within the Palestinian leadership and how many UN bureaucrats would see their huge income streams disappear.

The fanatical Zionist settlers too may not be willing to allow peace until their objectives of a greater Israel are achieved but I tend to believe that this minority can be persuaded whereas I have no such sentiments on those identified above.

My logic for........

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