In times of war, there is an irony associated with the recognition that our champions must earn their accreditation this ‘hard way’. For what other options have they (with any sincerity), been seriously offered?
After all. Hamas appeared sincere in her offer of a truce, on the basis of the 1967 conflict outcomes.
Could it by any chance be Historic Palestine’s continuing very substantial demographic advantage (over her Militant Zionist adversary) – that dissuaded (and continues to dissuade) “Isolationist Israel” from all serious ‘contemplation of peace’?