What more can be said of this brief news story? Israel is not planning for any peace deals with the Palestinians in 2008 and that is a sad, sad admission. How can a statement like this do anything but make things worse? When the biggest bully in the region says flat out "peace? well maybe next year" how is that going to stop the rocket attacks or bombings? Here's how: It won't, And that is just fine with the Israeli Government, who apparently believe that peace in the region does not favor them.
After all if there is no more fighting then it's hard to justify the $1billion Israel gets from the US every year. Nor does it foster the huge arms deals that Israel has with countries in Europe as well as the Ministry of Defense deals with China. If you ask me this is war profiteering - the "haves" that are making money hand over fist in a war zone. Meanwhile the "have-nots" on both sides have to live in fear while avoiding rockets and suicide bombers or armored bulldozers and rubber bullets. Peace would help the downtrodden, of which most are Palestinian and it seems that the leaders of Israel have no interest in helping their situation.
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