Out here we are pretty much out of touch with what is going on in the rest of the world. No TV, no radio, slow and spotty internet, put them together and you have blissful ignorance. However, I have gone online to find out a little bit about Obama's recent speech in Cairo on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his support for a 2-state solution. Take a few minutes and read up on it here. The link is fairly well-balanced in its analysis. Well, I can say that having traveled over many parts of this country, both Israeli, Palestinian, and then mix-habitation, I can say that every possible solution SUCKS. Both sides have at some various points done dirty, nasty things to each other. Feelings and memories run deep. Are you going to uproot hundreds of thousands of settlers all over the West Bank? Ask the Israelis to abandon such incredibly-central Old Testament sites like Shiloh and others? What do you do with Jerusalem? Besides, the current Palestinian are in areas that aren't contiguous to each other. Are you going to create a Palestinian state made of 4 or 5 (or more) little blobs of land that don't even touch each other?
For any peace in this land to come, both sides need to do a LOT of serious forgetting and forgoing justice. Could you do that? Compromise sucks when both parties feel backed into a corner.
Good luck, Mr. Obama. Keep doing your best. Let's hope and pray that other leaders rise to the occasion and mark hard decisions that hurt like hell and feel like betrayal to the dreams of their ancestors.
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