Israel: No Peace In Sight
The State of Israel was born on or about May 14, 1948 when the Jews declared themselves free from the British Mandate established by the League of Nations after World War I. Since that time, the State of Israel has been in a continuous war with the Palestinian people and various Arab states who have at times taken up their cause. Presently, there are definitive peace treaties only with Jordan and Egypt.
I have been watching this conflict over the past several decades, and it seems to me that Israel does not really want peace. Instead, it appears to me that Israel is attempting to gradually push as many Arabs as possible out of “Greater Israel” (which includes at least the West Bank area if not the Gaza Strip). Every time it appears that things might be settling down so that peace talks could begin, Israel seems to find an excuse to do something to set off the fighting once again.
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