'We can't forget' Netanyahu comments on Palestinian statehood, US says

If Herzog is unwilling to offer what Palestine and the world considers a bare minimum, then perhaps even the most "reasonable" Israeli government position will have to be rethought...

Or perhaps it's an indicator that both sides have very little faith the other is willing or able to hold up their end of the bargain, and as a result trust building preconditions that are escalating should be built...

Wait, this is sounding a lot like the escalating trust in the oslo accords, isn't it?

Isn't Abbas actively avoiding using those? He's actively breaking the conditions set out therein by seeking unilateral action in the international stage rather than negotiated independence via the accords.

Now, I can totally understand the perspective that the oslo accords are falling apart (they are), but it undermines your position a lot when rather than seeking to re-instate the accords or build international pressure to bring Israel into alignment with them/punish them for violating them, the Palestinian authority (specifically abbas corrupt and embezzling regime that's overstayed its welcome and led to massive corruption) are seeking to side step it.

If the goal is to build trust, and it should be regardless of how you feel about either polity, since they will eventually have to exist next to each other, your one sided blame seems not just counter productive, but simply biased and wrong.

Israel isn't faultless, but to pretend that because the positions aren't the same that Israel is at fault exclusively is equally wrong. The Palestinian authority has a long history of using terrorism to achieve political ends, not just historically, but recently, and Israel has a genuine and what should be understandable fear that any negotiated settlement would just devolve into an ISIS-like theocracy shooting rockets into Israel.

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