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It does seem like time that the Israeli government was brought to heel on this, though. Its behaviour is now becoming problematic on a global level, and while I'm not trying to say that it isn't under a certain amount of pressure, the fact remains that Israel is the only nation state in the area that's overtly acting in a violent manner - everyone else has at least a veneer of plausible deniability, whereas Israel cannot put the actions of it's army down to a terrorist-friendly minority that its citizens may or may not be harbouring, inadvertently or otherwise.
Unfortunately though, the only faction in the world that the Israeli government is likely to listen to about this, the US Republican party, is also the last one that's going to tell it what it badly needs to hear. Which is something like, 'any more of this insanity, and we're cutting you off.'
Israel, as a highly developed economy, could probably do without the money for a while, but it would struggle a bit without the implied military support. As the right wing elements in its government well know - they're at best going to stall a Democrat administration, until a more amenable character's in the Oval office, so the only way round this, it seems, is for the Republicans to be quite clear (behind the scenes, obviously) about the penalties they'd be prepared to impose as a result of any further attempts to derail 'the road to peace.'
And it's difficult to picture that happening at the moment - diverging slightly from the topic at hand, it does seem as if, unless a vaguely sane Republican is the next US president, the rest of the world is going to be sitting round waiting for the next neo-con backlash, and not paying its Democrat predecessor too much mind. |
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