A picture is worth a thousand words, but only if someone first takes their head out of the sand to look at it...
It may be you. Way to take an extremely complicated situation and derive a black & white conclusion from it. Surely Israel's settlement policies and compartmentalization of Palestinian land has created a warm environment for peace negotiation. If you think an issue like this can smolder for so long without both parties contributing to the problem, maybe you need to invest more time into the subject. And why is there little to no discussion of who first broke the 6 month ceasefire initiated back in June 08? It is my understanding that Israel was the first to break it back in Nov while we were distracted by our presidential elections. Reminds me of the US media interpretation of Georgia-South Ossetia-Russian conflict. Everyone was pointing at the Russians, but when the dust settled and facts came in, the vast majority of blame fell on Georgian forces who first initiated excessive heavy artillery shelling on S. Ossetia.
A picture is not worth a 1000 words...Only a fool would believe everything that they see....Does ayone remember when networks played footage of Palestinians dancing in the street after the 9-11 attacks? both sides hit the propaganda trail
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231760642497&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull ... Upon receiving word that the US was planning to vote in favor of the resolution - viewed by Israel as impractical and failing to address its security concerns - Olmert demanded to get Bush on the phone, and refused to back down after being told that the president was delivering a lecture in Philadelphia. Bush interrupted his lecture to answer Olmert's call, the premier said. America could not vote in favor of such a resolution, Olmert told Bush. Soon afterwards, Rice abstained when votes were counted at the UN. ...