The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #148368   Message #3445709
Posted By: Steve Shaw
02-Dec-12 - 10:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: Palestine welcomed into the UN fold
Subject: RE: BS: Palestine welcomed into the UN fold
The problem with asking Israel to show statesmanship is that it would mean their having to make what they would see as compromises, the chief of which would be to withdraw from some, most or all of those settlements. We are in a position in which Israel does not have give anything. In fact, they can continue to take with impunity. Statesmanship implies accepting responsibility for your actions. Seeing that if I do this thing I want to do, then that will happen, and I might not like it, and it may adversely affect others, so I'll think again. I can't see that ever coming about when Israel is so indulged by the west, the US in particular. No-one has ever sent Israel to bed early for being naughty, or even threatened it, so we have a spoiled Israel.