The Mideast Peace Process Peters Out.

• Author: DeAtkine, Norvell

Title: THE MIDEAST PEACE PROCESS PETERS OUT

Author: Norvell DeAtkine

THE MIDEAST PEACE PROCESS PETERS OUT

By Clifford D. May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-the-mideast-peace-

process-peters-out/

There should be an entry in the medical journals for a chronic disease that seems to afflict every American administration but has been particularly pronounced in the present one. The disease is called Palestinitis. The symptoms are basically two. The first is an embedded belief that the solution to the Palestinian problem equates to peace in the Middle East. The second is the strange impact on politicians who become diplomats. They somehow feel that they can, by strength of their earnestness and charisma, solve the insolvable and heal decades of hatred and mistrust with their sincere honest intentions.

Clifford May in this article basically rehashes the latest failure of "peace negotiations." As he wrote, they never got out of the starting blocks. There was never the slightest intention on the part of the Palestinians, whether the Gaza or West Bank variety, to come to terms with the "entity" called Israel. It would, in fact, destroy their reason for being. Palestine is defined by the existence of Israel.

May indicated that the real "stunner" was that the president of the rump state known as the Palestinian Authority...