U.S. says will push hard for Palestinian statehood

[Fleshdancer]

http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20090403/760/twl-u-s-says-will-push-hard-for-palestin.html

The United States will push hard for Palestinian statehood despite a new rightist government in Israel but anticipates a rough road ahead, a U.S. official said on Thursday.

"We're going to be working hard to see what we can do to move the process forward. But we're under no illusions. It's not going to be easy," said State Department spokesman Robert Wood.

"We have to engage constantly and remind the parties of their obligations and to try to set up a framework, a process for getting us toward that goal of a two-state solution," Wood added, referring to the goal of separate Israeli and Palestinian states, living side by side in peace.

[Mind_your_head]

1. How come Israel and Palestine *just can't get along* in the first place?

MOST people 'want to get along' with others and usually do EVERYTHING THEY CAN to show friendship.

Why doesn't this BASIC human dynamic evidence itself when it comes to Israel/Palestine?

[Bicoastal]

2. Well obviously, if the relationship between Israel and Palestine wasn't extraordinarily complex...

...it'd have been resolved sixty friggin' years ago!

Besides, you can argue that most nations do not "want to get along" with others. The history of Western AND Eastern civilization is nothing but one conflict after another. Peace as national policy is definitely a relatively new philosophy.

You can further argue that humans at their base levels are neurotic primates who, due to their oversized brains, see life as a series of insecurities...and all of human civilization is an impulse to rectify these insecurities, no matter what the cost. That leads to conflict, which leads to war, which we as a species have been doing as long as we've walked upright.

:rant:

[BlooInBloo]

3. Spoken like someone who's never seen a history book.

[Mind_your_head]

6. Thanks for adding to the discussion/enlightenment Bloo.....

NOT.

(but that's typical for you.)

[geek tragedy]

7. Because both sides are convinced that they can get what they

want only by causing the other side so much pain that they give in.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Need to have the French or Russian news mistranslate it to

U.S. says will push hard for Palestinian manhood.

[PFunk]

5. I'll probally will be flamed but the 'two state' solution time has long since passed.

To many factors have now made that an impossibility. A one state solution in the form of a secular Isreal with both groups share is now the way to go. Only the idiots stand in the way of this now.

[rockymountaindem]

8. Then, that can devolve into civil war, and we can have the two-state solution after that

minus all the people who get killed.