"Everybody already know how the final agreement will look like", Moshe Amirav says on the TV news. Suddenly it strikes me that he is right. There is no other way. Approximately 9% of the West Bank will be annexed to Israel in a land swap, and this includes the largest settlement blocs. Jerusalem will be divided with the holy basin run by a special regime, and the Eastern Arab neighbourhoods will become the Palestinian capital. No Palestinian refugees will return to Israeli territory. The dream of a united Jerusalem is the sacrifice for the Jewish nation and the right to return is the Palestinian dream that is shattered. The procrastination is only a charade. The question is whether the leaders are brave enough. Are they ready to do the concessions? Bibi? Abu Mazen? Yalla! Kadima!
Then of course we have Hamas to deal with, who like loyal clockworks executed a terror attack just in time for the initiation of the peace negotiations. I do not have to put in words how I feel about the settlement enterprise, but being savagely shot down is a bit harsh punishment for occupying land.
Then there is Iran. I wish that people would understand that the Mideast conflict is about more than just some land in the Levant...
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