All this has led to an inevitable deadlock because of unsolvable fundamental disagreements between
the sides, especially the Jerusalem issue.
As it looks now, it is not farfetched to assume that the
following is necessary in order to reach peace.
1. Wide scale
violence between the Israelis and the Palestinians erupts, and as a result
2. both parties
shift to leaderships that are more pragmatic, and since the differences are
still to big in order to reach some kind of peace agreement there will ensue an
3. imposed peace by
the US and the world.
The first stage was already implemented
in the form of the first and second intifadas, and relatively pragmatic leaderships
dominated politics on both sides for years and even a few almost successful negotiation
attempts were made by Prime Ministers Olmert and Barak. However, the US and the
world failed to intervene at those crucial points and impose a forced peace
agreement. As a result, both sides are facing now the first stage again – violence,
and I hope I am wrong.
Julian Rubin
Dimona
Published in the Jerusalem Report on February 11, 2013 in the
Letters to the Editor section.