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Originally Posted by g jones
People who kill other people are to blame in short. There's a distinct lack of humanity.
It has been within Israel's gift to accelerate the peace process.
I've have met Regev, Allon and Abass privately and toured the West Bank with the UN.
Compromise is far more difficult when influential people on both sides hold fundamentalist views.
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Perhaps this should have been pointed out to Tony Blair prior to GWII, but with regard to Gaza -if Hamas stopped firing rockets, albeit inaccurate and therefore more likely to result in civilian casualties, then there is every likelihood that Israel will cease the retaliation.
Britain is unlikely ever to be trusted politically by the Arab Nations as they still hold the "Balfour Declaration" of 1917 against the British as they see that as the birth of Israel and the support thereafter from the Western Nations.