Reply to beardedbruce

I have already tried to explain that the illegal Israeli paramilitary settlements on stolen land on the West Bank is increasingly making a two state solution to the crisis impossible.

This is because the hundreds of thousands of armed settlers have built their hilltop fortress settlements on Palestinian land and are increasingly encroaching further, grubbing up orchards,olive groves and farmland. They are demolishing Palestinian homes ,building Israeli only roads and setting up roadblocks and checkpoints across the West Bank holding up Palestinians for hours,isolating towns from their hinterlands and destroying Palestinian businesses. The Israeli government has actively encouraged this land grab in defiance of international law.

Now if that is its response to a two state solution what about a one state solution in which Israelis and Palestinians live together in one democratic state?

That is not even on the political horizion and if it is ever put forward is scoffed at and mocked at by Zionists.

The Israeli government seeks nothing less than the complete surrender of the Palestinian people with the palestinian organisations policing the population on behalf of the Israelis like some tame and timid puppets.

I don't think it is going to work.The illegal occupation has been a disaster for the Palestinians but has also been deeply corrupting and corrosive for Israel itself with Israeli policies being increasingly compared to the hated nazis.

Every night we see more of Gaza being destroyed with mosques and schools blown up,children being killed in growing numbers, indiscriminate shelling and bombing of densely populated city buildings, a hospital being hit and a city blockaded.

The USA is guilty accomplice to these acts of barbarism.And who can believe the liar and bully Bush ,the man who launched that murderous war in Iraq,when he predictably blames Hamas for the carnage in Gaza?

Israel's latest attack on Gaza is only going to further stoke up hatreds .

It needs to radically change course but that is doubtful in such a highly militarisic theocratic regime .

Gideon Levy, a writer for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, makes many insightful comments about the dehumanising of the Palestinian people and his website is well worth reading.
Ifor