(September 5, 2016 at 5:09 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: For most of the country's history there was (and is) nobody in a position of power willing to even talk, let alone make the neccessay climbdowns to generate a proper Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Not true. Menachem Begin and Saddat, Menachem Begin and Arafat, Jitzchak Rabin brokering peace with Jordan and being on his way to reach some kind of agreement with the Palestinians before getting killed by a home made nutjob. Even Sharon wthdrew from Gaza.
It's only this last adminstration under Netanjahu that's totally against any kind of serious negotiations. The reasons are clear, since Netanjahu is in a coalition with the jewish fundamentalist Schas party and they haven't got any interest in brokering a peace deal or give up even a yard of the occupied territories.