The Guardian UK has this to say about the death of the peace charade:
The Middle East peace process died a quiet, undramatic death with the statement last week that the US had given up trying to persuade Binyamin Netanyahu to stop building on occupied land as a prerequisite to direct talks with the Palestinians. Few, however, are interested in burying the corpse. . .
The US is unwilling to set a date for the funeral, because to recognise that a death had taken place would entail an inquest and an examination of 18 fruitless years of failed attempts. And that is the last thing a US president fighting re-election will do. The radical part of Barack Obama’s Middle East strategy has already been and gone. He has spent his political capital and needs to conserve the dimes in his pocket. All of these are compelling short-term reasons for doing nothing, for saying, as if this has not been said often enough in the past, that the time is not ripe, the leaders are too weak, the sides are not ready. But they are dreadful long-term ones. Israel will continue to impose its own one-state solution, with separate roads, and separate governance for Jew and Arab. The Palestinian leadership will continue weak and divided. The argument that Hamas and other militant groups use, that Israel makes territorial concessions only when it is forced to, will grow in resonance. And, inch by inch, the next conflict – be it in the form of a strike on Iran, or a third Palestinian uprising – will come closer. Doing nothing is not just the counsel of despair. In the asymmetry of relations between the growing state of Israel and the shrinking non-state of Palestine, doing nothing is a deeply partisan act.
Good oped about how Israel and its U.S. enablers have a vested interest in keeping this zombie on its feet, Weekend at Bernie’s style.
Look, Bernie can walk! Look, Bernie can dance! Look, Bernie can hold indirect talks!
To rephrase the above poster, “The peace process would be the perfect host for a Palestinian state, except for one small thing… it’s dead. Also, that was never the goal in the first place… only more Israeli settlements and more land theft. Let’s party!”
The Guardian tells it how it is – when will the New York Times tell its readers in the US the same truth?
