What #2 said.
The only peace any human ever finds is the peace of the grave. IIRC, that was Plato’s observation about 2400 years or so ago.
Since then peace has come to be defined as a lack of war. Moving the goalposts again. As far as the Arab-Israeli conflict, it takes two to make peace. So long as the Arabs idea of peace is genocide against Jews, there won’t be peace. For some reason, Jews don’t like being the target of genocide. Experience perhaps?
Regardless, as long as the Arabs pretend to negotiate, there is no reason for the Jews to not pretend to negotiate. If I was negotiating for Israel, I would focus on Arabs adding Israel to their maps and publicly acknowledge Israel’s right to exist DAILY, in ALL media. In Arabic, Yiddish, English and French.
Right now the Arabs are waging a agi-prop offensive and it’s working much better then any of their many military offensives. Maybe if the Arbs are shown that their propaganda attack has no more chance then their military ones did, they might get serious. The first sign of them getting serious will be the background map on the evening news showing the state of Israel, AS IT EXISTS TODAY.
Until then both sides can continue to negotiate, between spasmodic outbursts of organized murder. Rational people understand that the negotiations won’t accomplish anything until the underlying conditions change. Fools will get their hopes up, but then again fools often do strange things.
