And, of course, it’s very close to being true. The decision to release prisoners jailed for barbaric acts of terrorist violence rather than freeze or stop a single West Bank settlement is a revealing one, don’t you think? Netanyahu would rather rub salt in the wounds of still-grieving relatives of terror victims than mess with a single hair on a settler’s head. The settlements are the hill this country now seems prepared to die on.
I have stopped believing that a majority in Israel wants a two-state solution. Because the wealth of evidence belies it. Yes, of course I want the talks to proceed. But whereas I once thought they’d almost certainly founder because of Palestinian intransigence, I now think Israel’s fundamentalist right is the real problem. And they have absolutely no intention of conceding an inch of what they believe God gave them.
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