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The Tangled Course to Middle East Peace - Crisis and not Conflict

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All attempts at peaceful settlement of issues contain discussions of how Israel can retain the territorial gains ruled illegal by the UN.

Even Israel's detractors couple their charges with the slogan: ??It's good for Israel. ?

Whereas western nations have reacted violently to virulent nationalism, militarism, land seizures and irredentism, they have tolerated Israel's inclusion of these characteristics in its agenda.

The world allies with most Arab governments to battle Islamic extremists. In Israel Judaic extremists are permitted to grow.

All of this is confirmed by Israel's Minister of Information's shrewdly placed expression that has become slogan in all naà ve western nations; ??Special relationship with Israel. ?

Due to the western world's bent that favors Israel, the crisis for which Israel has responsibility has been detoured to a conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in which the Palestinians are depicted as having major responsibility.

Crisis and not conflict
Wikipedia defines it well: ??Conflict is actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests. ? Conflict between Israelis and Palestinians there is; for sure, but the opposing forces in this conflict are magnitudes unequal and their ??conflict' proceeds from provocations. Defining the situation as a conflict is misleading.

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