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Palestinian-Israeli conflict can be settled in 2 years - Lavrov
Published: 30 June, 2010, 13:49
Edited: 05 July, 2010, 03:24
After negotiations with both sides, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has made an optimistic statement on the end of Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Pie in the sky. How on Earth can peace be achieved when Israel refuses to make the necessary concessions and the PA refuses to back down on making those conditions essential for a peace deal? Plus, Hamas will only ever agree to temporary truces. So long as it is in power in Gaza, a permanent peace between Gaza and Israel is impossible. All in all, it doesn't matter how determined and level-headed third-parties are so long as the local leadership remains what it presently is. The problem is less with mediators then it is with the mediated.
Oh dear, Mr lavrov, Optimism is born out of Russian tradition and flows naturally from you as heir to the Leninist tradition. But this time it is misplaced. Isreal's disregard of international legality and its flagrant repeated inclination to embark on dangerous acts of state terrorism have the underlying reason in its role in the middle east as imperialism's Catspaw. How on earth then can peace come there , one wonders, without this being renounced ?
Mr. Lavrov says "If all parties show goodwill and mutual trust". Where is the goodwill and trust from Hamas the terrorist regime that swears to destroy Israel? Where is the goodwill and trust from Mr. Abbas who continues to name public places after terrorist bombers? The failure of the so-called "Peace Process" is 100% due to the ongoing hatred of Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah and their Iranian overlords.
Militarization, security, more troops and more troops joining in the both sides, has never and will never bring peace to any part of our "that much intelligent" human race. I mean for f*** sake that place is holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians. NOVAYA RUSSIA, keep it up and keep it real. My love always with you. And I am dying to test fly T-50 (on my pc only).
The ideas put forward seem to revolve around a solution of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as a State for the remnants of the Palestinian People, that have survived the ethnic cleansing of Palestine as a whole by so called Israel. This looks very similar to what the British did in India in 1947 in the sub continent of India, East and West Pakistan. Which was a flawed idea and ended up in a bloody war and East Pakistan becoming Bangladesh. Israel has never recognized the Palestinians as the ethnic population of the land they stole to create the mess we see there now, or that Palestine has been an existent country for a few thousand years. Neither do they have any good relationships with their close neighbors and beyond, except Egypt and that is a country with a form of quasi dictatorship, not really a democracy of the people. The two state solution was envisaged by the British, who created the mess in the first place, and realized it would never work. The final solution, decided on just before WW2, was one state for all. They would have to live together. But alas it never happened, they walked out and Uncle Sam moved in. The solution of one state for all can work. Lebanon is a confessional state and it works. Israelis who wish to stay and live with the ethnic population on an equal basis do so. Those who don't can go home to their respective countries they came from, they would not be refugees but the same as the British who left India. The surrounding countries would support such a move and tensions would disappear overnight. The present situation is untenable and has been for too long and a two state solution would not resolve the tension in that part of the world nor would it bring final relief to the Palestinian refugees created by the creation of Israel by the west.
Thank you Mr. Lavrov for your leadership. Because it ability to deal with Israel in mature ways, perhaps its Russia that represents the best interests of Israel not the U.S.