Seriously there will never be peace in the Middle East

I see so many things in papers and blogs.  People are worried about the peace process or excited.  You might be worried that we might have to give up land for peace which would be a grave mistake I will get to later.  You might be excited that we might finally have peace.  Or you might just feel like we (Israel) have no real peace partner which might be true but isn't the real issue of this entry.

There never will and never can be peace between Arabs and Jews at least not without divine intervention like Mashiach or rebuilding of the temple etc.  I try to leave G-D out of this blog so we move on.  There are a few reasons which I will mention but I will focus on the big one. 

There can never be peace because of Jerusalem.  You can look up and down the political spectrum of Israelis and except for the far left you can not find Israelis willing to give up on any part of Jerusalem period.  Rumor has it that Ehud Olmert had agreed to give away Eastern Jerusalem but when he discussed with his colleagues in the Knesset he was shot down.  They asked him, "Do you want us to give up our careers in politics"?  Ironically they didn't stand up on ideological grounds but I guess that's politicians for you.  The point is they can't give it up.  You can't say this about Judea and Samaria or the other areas on the other side of the so-called green line.  Jerusalem though is really for all intents and purposes not even on the negotiations table. 

Now what about the Arabs.  Well I am not on the Arab side but I can say that every time I hear Abbas speak, I hear him say "A Palestinian state with Jerusalem as it's capital".  Yes he never leaves that out.  Now in all fairness I have heard from a good Muslim American friend of mine that the Idea of Jerusalem is not so important as much as the temple mount and even that is not the end all be all.  For a Muslim the most important place is Mecca.  I am not an expert but this is what I have heard.  In any event even though it is not the most important place in the Muslim religion, still they go crazy over it.  I know in Ramadan it's extremely crowded.  I once discussed with a Palestinian about rebuilding the temple and how we would have to destroy the dome of the rock.  He said and I will never forget this, "You better be prepared for the Mother of all wars".  This is a guy that I see almost every day and that I would say I am on very good terms with.  I would say he's a good acquaintance but as soon as I mention destroying the dome of the rock, it's over.  We are now enemies if this would happen.

So now what we have here is an impossibility.  No one is willing to budge.  It's pointless.  Jerusalem is so important to the Jews and yet also so important to the Arabs.  So what gives?  I don't know to be honest but I will say this.  This is the most important reason that there can never be peace and you should recognize this.  I wish they the politicians would accept this but unfortunately this can never happen for a number of reasons.

First reason they will never acknowledge it is because they can't.  Any high profile politician like Bibi or John Kerry or Obama will be committing political suicide.  Sure there will be those that come to his rescue but he will not be able to face the rest of the world.  Now the rest of the world is not delusional.  They are all just trying to tow the line.  You see there is a balance at play here.  The world is in a state where war is always to be prevented which may not be good but that's reality.  The USA wants to look good in the eyes of Jews and Arabs and Europeans.  When the USA says Israel must have secure borders they making Israel happy and when they say that the Palestinians deserve a state, they are making the Arabs happy.  They are able to make the Arabs happy.  When they pressure Israel they are also  making the Europeans happy as they are more or less pro Arab.  The Europeans have a similar balance but they are more pro Arabs but they will come out in support of Israel to gain the Americans support.  Now Israel will want to keep this balance in place so they will not deny the Palestinians right to a state but will talk about Israel's security and then so to the Arabs will usually not deny the Jews the right to a state.  Now the Arabs are less politically correct and will deny in their own press but then won't do it in the national press.  This is another topic but the point is that they are towing the line.  Everyone is doing their best to not look bad but no one stops to notice that it's a lie.  This is why they have to force Israel to give up on parts of Judea and Samaria.  Of course since we know there can never be peace, we should never give up on any land.  Really we should never give up land any way but that's theological which I am trying to leave out for now.  Strictly on a logical level giving up land would be bad because of the security risks and because there is no chance for peace anyways.  Because they have nothing else to discuss.  It's the only way they can live their lie.  Eventually there will be a war.  There has to be.  In the mean time I guess we will continue with the lie.

Another reason there can never be peace is the terrorist groups.  Actually there are two reasons here.  First, the terrorist enterprise is more than just terror.  It's big business.  The terrorist industry if you will is a multibillion dollar industry.  There are engineers workers and most importantly there are big time executives making a load of cash.  They won't let it end.  It's maybe the same reason why the USA will never have socialized health care.  The Insurance companies will never let it happen because it would be a huge hit to them.  I digress as health care is not our topic.  Also let's imagine for a second that there was a peace agreement.  This could never happen because of Jerusalem but if there was, do you think the terror would stop?  Of course not.  The best Israel could hope for would be what they currently have in Iraq.  There is no dispute over land but yet it continues for idealogical reasons. 

There is one last issue that if this were all to work out then this could also hold it up.  The refugee issue.  I consider is a non issue though.  The Arabs demand to return all the Arabs back to their homes that ran away and all of the generations that came after to their original homes.  First, this would be by it's nature a refusal of any agreement.  Many of these refugees would end up in the new agreed upon state.  This would essentially not give Israel what it wants from an agreement because it would not solve the demographic problem.  Also there is the issue of the developed area.  We cannot go back on what was in the past.  Surely and refugees can go back if it would be in the new Arab state.  Anyways it won't get this far. 

Ok so I hope you can see that really there will never be peace.