This article is based on an article in the Washington Examiner on Friday and an article in the Jerusalem Post on Friday.
The article in the Washington Examiner points out:
"The compromises the two sides seek would involve the thorniest issues that have doggedthe parties for decades: the borders of an eventual Palestinian state, the political status of Jerusalem, West Bank settlements, the fate of Palestinian refugees and security."
The Jerusalem Post article illustrates one of the obstacles:
"The current round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks will not succeed, Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said during a "Jerusalem Day" commemoration speech on Friday.
"Nasrallah characterized the talks as "stillborn" and said, "Jerusalem, and not even one of its streets, can not be the capital of the state called Israel.""
Until the Arab states (and, unfortunately, Arab terrorist groups) acknowledge Israel's right to exist with Jerusalem as its capital, there will not be peace in the Middle East. The land Israel conquered in 1967 was land that was originally given to it by the United Nations (actually the land given to Israel in 1948 by the United Nations was much smaller than what Israel had been initially promised in the Balfour Declaration and by the League of Nations). The one thing that Israel should not be asked to give up is her capital, Jerusalem. What other nation in the history of the world has ever been asked to turn over half of its capital to people who are pledged to 'drive it into the sea?'
Until hatred is not taught to children in Gaza and the West Bank, until people like Nasrallah are condemned for making the kind of statements quoted above, and until the neighbors of Israel acknowledge her right to exist with Jerusalem as her capital, there will be no peace in the Middle East.
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