http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/abbas-we-ll-never-sign-deal-demanding-recognition-of-israel-as-jewish-state-1.319329
Basically, Abbas wants peace only when Israel recognizes a Palestinian state as of the 1967 borders. Whereas Israel agrees of stopping the settlements being built in the West bank, only, if Abbas agrees to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. This is all reminiscent of when my brother and I would wrestle. He'd pin me down and I'd have to yell the word "uncle" in order to be released. And, on the rare occasions I would be able to hold him down, he would have to yell the same word.
Israel and the Palestinians are playing the same game: Who pins who down. Who says it first. I suppose this all boils down to who is "morally" right, legitimately there, but in reality it is who is more powerful. Even the simile of David and Goliath is overplayed because while world-view paints the Israelis as Goliath, we are still being pelted by quassams and suicide bombings. Even while the Palistinians are being painted as the political Goliath, their government is suppressing their own people. It doesn't matter who was on top, or more powerful with me and my brother's wrestling matches. In the end one we would still be going back and forth, with out an ultimate winner: just another round.
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