So giving up Gaza wasn't showing willingness to negotiate? Going far beyond what was agreed to in the Oslo accord is not showing willingness to negotiate? What does Israel have to do to show it is willing to negotiate with the Palestinians. Not sacrifice themselves but negotiate a solid peace?
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > I would disagree that Israel is willing to negotiate. I haven't seen > anything that would indicate that they are any more willing to negotiate > than the radical factions in Palestine. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:grussg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 03:08 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: The nightmare israel feared - Non Violent Resistance from > Palestinians > > > Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > the validity of it, but I know enough about recent history in that > > area to know that the Israeli leadership, while perhaps not on the > > level of Bull Conner or Lord Willingdon, is far from innocent of any > > wrong doing toward the Palestinian peoples. > > > I'm sure there are incidents you could point to where person X could've > done > a better job, etc. > > But at what point do you simply provide options: > > 1.) Peace. It means a negotiated settlement. Israel is willing to deal, > has been for decades (since it's founding really), and is ready to talk > right now. > > 2.) War. The result of the unwillingness or inability to do #1. > > If you choose war then there are going to be incidents of people behaving > badly. > > Seems to me that if you don't have a partner to negotiate peace then the > only option is a wall until that partner shows up. > > In other words, it seems like it would be a lot harder to find Palestinians > that want negotiated peace than Israelis that want negotiated peace. > > What am I missing? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338004 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
