Again Israel has been lured into a peace process in the hope of turning their enemies into partners. Talking with people who's starting point is your disappearance seems like a fool's errand at best. Past "peace processes" have largely centred on Israel giving up at the bargaining table land it won on the battlefield (usually in a war initiated by an Arab state). It halved its total land mass for peace with Egypt and gave up Mt. Sinai, oil, untold millions of acres land on which to settle its burgeoning population. Land it won when Egypt invaded it, not the other way around. It has taken a while but now what does Israel face on its southern border? An Sunni Isalmist state who's military is funded by the United States. It gave up "land for peace" with Lebanon unilaterally withdrawing from its positions on the Litani River. What does Israel face up north? A failed terrorist state run by Iran's Al Quds force backing Hezbollah. Israel was within shelling distance of Damacus at the end of the Yom Kippur War. In return for withdrawing to its 1967 lines what does Israel now face on its north-eastern border? After years of relative quiet, Israel now faces what their Minister of Defense calls the worlds most potent assemblage of Isalmist terrorist organizations ever in the failed state of Syria. What is the macro message? That trusting in their Arab "partners" to keep end of the bargain is a fools errand at best and a genocidal nightmare at worst. What will the cost be this time? So far it has cost the releasing 104 prisoners in stages as the process proceeds. Let's hope that is all that Isareli's give away this time at the bargaining table.
You can read the Open Letter Bibi sent to all Israeli citizens earlier today here.
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