Yesterday, September 2nd Israel and Palestine's Fatah Party began US brokered peace talks for the first time in almost two years. The talks will take place every two weeks for the next two years before ending without any progress made and possibly the prospect of continuing becoming more deeply entrenched.
Everybody with any knowledge of the situation should know that the timing of these talks is all wrong. The Americans don't really want to be involved. The Israelis only want to be involved because they know the Americans don't. Fatah are the only people really pushing for these talks because it makes it look as if they're doing something and hope that will keep the money flowing into their party funds. To the credit of Hamas they tried to end this whole horrible charade before it began by doing the most outrageous thing they could think of. Unfortunately it wasn't outrageous enough so four Israeli settlers were killed for nothing and Israeli settlers burnt down Palestinian homes equally for nothing.
The most positive thing I can say about the whole situation is that it highlights the problem with the Worlds acceptance of Israels refusal to talk to Hamas. The reason that Palestinian voters rejected Fatah in droves is that the party is so horribly corrupt it is little more then an Israeli puppet regime. Therefore it is obvious that there is never going to be peace in the Middle East if Israel are allowed to continue to negotiate with no-one but themselves.
On a side note Middle East peace envoy, Tony Blair chose the eve of the peace talks to publish an autobiography covering his time as British Prime Minister. Although not intended this vanity does serve to underline why Blair must be removed from the role of peace envoy. After all the situation in the Middle East has got dramatically worse since he started trying to fix it.
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