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Originally Posted by SaintessHeart
I agree. There are plenty of whackjobs in the Middle East who misinterpreted the Koran and was brainwashed into thinking that "Jews are evil and instruments of the Satan", so this peace process is pretty much naught.
They probably won't stop until they genocide anyone who is a Jew or Zionist. Even the Samaritans.
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Except in this case it was the Israelis who repeatedly sabotaged the peace processes by going on with the colonisation and occupying lands beyond those delimited by resolution 242.
Well it does go to the credit of Israel's PR efforts that people would still believe "Islamist wackjobs" are the cause of it. It's true though that the PLO's moderates are getting more and more marginalised by the Islamists, but what do you expect when the Israelis constantly undermine whatever the PLO manages to negotiate? Hamas gained ground solely thanks to their loss of credibility. Ironically Israel originally supported Hamas as a counterbalance to Arafat's PLO; we can now see how successful that was.
That's the main reason Mahmoud Abbas is going to the UN even if he knows he'll fail. Because if he doesn't do a PR coup, the PLO will keep loosing face to the Hamas in the eyes of the Palestinian people.