And it is this kind of intransigence that would make me - in their shoes - begin the process of evicting and expelling every last Muslim-Palestinian; in Gaza, for starters, and then the West Bank; and Devil take the consequences.Abbas does not have the authority to sign away other people's rights.
Tinny does, indeed, represent the mindset of the Palestinians in such matters. There is no middle-ground or compromise with the Palestinians. They want it all and will settle for nothing less. They will dissemble and deceive and lie and deal falsely along the way but them settling for anything less than 'all' is deceptive and a mere temporary state of affairs.
Consequently, there can be no peace unless...
1. Israel is destroyed
2. The Palestinians are exterminated
3. The Palestinians are evicted from their homes and expelled to Egypt, Jordan, etc.
(1) is not going to happen.
(2) is too bloodthirsty and inhumane, and risks an intervention
(3) is the only answer left
All three options involve blood.
(3) involves the least amount of blood; all or most of the displaced are still alive at the end of it, and nobody will interfere, other than to protest or boycott.
It has been 65 years and the foolhardy Palestinians have never really budged an inch.
They cannot be trusted - as negotiating partners or neighbors.
Ever.
Time to send them packing, while the Israelis have the muscle, and while all of the neighboring Arab countries are militarily impotent.
There is no other form of relief (for the Israelis) in sight.
Might as well admit it, bite the goddamned bullet, and get started.
Long-term, in light of the alternatives, the Israelis have nothing to lose by doing so.
I wonder if they are beginning to think in similar terms?
We may find out, when this latest round of pointless talks fails.
Of course, the Israelis may find a way to drag this out for another 3 years - long enough for a new and more sympathetic American administration to be sworn-in, but it seems unlikely that America will interfere, once the next round of talks fail, if the Israelis finally begin to act.
This idiotic revisiting of Right-of-Return on the part of the Palestinians is a Poison Pill designed to kill the talks.
I wonder if the Palestinians know just how dangerous such a tactic may prove, this time around?
Fools.
All three options involve blood.
The Zionist's project to take Palestine from the Palestinians has always involved blood.
What about the muslims project to take Israel from the Jews, doesn't that also involve blood. And as we have seen a lot more blood than the alleged Zionist project.
1 million Jews displaced and housed in Israel, 10 million Jews mass murdered under muslim control since the first genocide in medina