Settler-Extremists Fire Mortars into W. Bank Villages (tags)
Israel's own Extremists are desperate to provoke another round of attacks on the Palestinians. Did you see this on the news ... ?
Cross Your Fingers: Israel Claims It's Decided Against Gaza Invasion (tags)
Let's hope.
Chief Palestinian Negotiator to Israel: Acknowledge Right of Return (tags)
"The guideline of our policy has always been the idea that a permanent situation of no peace and a latent war is the best situation for us, and that it must be maintained at all costs. ... we are becoming stronger year by year in a situation of impending conflict where it is possible that actual fighting may break out from time to time. SUch wars will usually be short and the results guaranteed in advance, since the gap between us and the Arabs is increasing. In this way we shall move on from occupation to further occupation. ... this criminally mischievous policy has led us into the crisis we are living through today" (Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 30 November 1973) "We have not been seeking peace for twenty-five years -- all declarations to that effect have been no more than coloured statements or deliberate lies. There is of course no assurance that we could have made peace with the Arabs if we had wanted to. However, it has to be heavily emphasized that we have not only made no attempts to seek peace, but have deliberately and with premeditation, sabotaged every possibility of doing so." (Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 30 November 1973)
Palestinians Offer Peace, Israeli Extremists Call for Blood (tags)
The timing of this is interesting, as the Palestinians have offered Israel a cease-fire, which it appears Israel's ruling Extremists are going to reject out of hand. And of course they will. After all, the engineered this 'crisis', not only to undermine the elected Government, but also try to weaken the Palestinians so they will be more willing to accept any offer made, and to destroy any chance of a real peace process, which would force Israel to finally live up to its substantial legal and moral obligations. They will continue to brutalize the people of Gaza, so long as the international community shamefully remains silent as it happens.
Calling Israel's Bluff: Hamas Offers Truce, Israel Rejects Peace (tags)
Israeli and American Extremists engineered this 'crisis', in order to undermine the ELECTED representatives of the Palestinians, and do not want it stopped. However, if Israel continues to reject peace, the world is going to start publicly debating these facts, as well as the fact that it is the Palestinians who have no 'partner for peace'.