TJP

With over $4 billion dollars in military funding from United States taxpayers to aid Israel’s occupation of Palestine and to fund settlement expansions, why should Israel seek peace, if the occupation is profitable?

It is unambiguously clear, if Israel wanted peace the moratorium on settlements would continue during negotiations with Abbas.

United States and United Nations condemnation of Israel’s decision not to extend the settlement freeze is no enough.

Lifting the freeze is disrespectful to the United States and all the stakeholders that support a peaceful Middle East. Moreover, it validates the evolving consensus that Israel does not want peace.

Furthermore, Israel’s decision to continue building settlements on occupied land has put Abbas in an untenable position. Abbas cannot continue to negotiate for Palestine in the presence of settlement expansion.

And, it is unlikely that another opportunity for Middle East peace will occur in the near future. Rather, Palestinians, and Muslim in general, will only see one choice, that predicted by King Abdullah II.

The next war in the Middle East is unlikely to be in the interest of the United State.

Let’s hope that Netanyahu has the fortitude to do the right thing, continue the settlement freeze. Such action would certainly signal Israel’s willingness for peace.

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