A very serious matter involving countless innocent civilian lives lost, Netanyahu wistfully offers, "Someday, everything you see will be leveled."
The Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Netanyahu, surprised many today. Giving a speech on the future of the Middle East peace process, he stated that he would support a separate Palestinian state.
He then no doubt, put many Israeli's minds at ease when he listed a long list of conditions which he knows only to well, no neighbouring peaceful state would agree to, let alone a neighbouring state that they have been at war with on and off of 60 years would agree on.
Mr Netanyahu's main condition is demilitarisation of Palestine meaning that the new nation would have no army, thus, joining the 21 of the 195 countries in the world without a military. Countries such as; the Pitcairn Islands, Samoa and Saint Lucia.
Palestine Prime Minister Salam Fayyad pointed out that none of these countries share a border with a country which regularly bomb them with white phosphorus, contain a massive nuclear arsenal and have an army of 180,000 active personal.
While, Mr Netanyahu says there will be no new settlements, he says there will not be a halt to natural growth of settlements, and with no army to stop them these will likely spread to engulf the Palestine state within 20 years.
In the short term, it seems that the Middle East peace process is no closer to being solved. Israel want a demilitarised state, while Palestine, currently run by a popularly elected Hamas government, want to regularly launch rockets into Israel.
Mr Netanyahu's other conditions include:
- No beardy sorts to operate rockets.
- The new Palestinian state can not form alliances with any other country, especially those with crazed leaders who don't particularly like Israel very much.
- Israel will continue to bomb them for sport.
