Zionism runs away with itself. | Notes On Error: At this point, the pretense of negotiation is being kept alive merely because a certain sense of impertinence will attach itself to the first party to exit. Those ties that remain are largely fanciful and based on bad faith, as was made plain by an anonymous Israeli official speaking to the tiresome question of motive. S/he equivocated thusly:
Israel is strictly honoring all the understandings that were reached to facilitate the current peace talks… If you look at every peace plan that’s been on the table, there are differences between the different plans, but in all of them, the large settlement blocs remain part of the final-status peace. If you’re building in areas that are going to remain part of Israel in any agreement, are we really changing the map of peace?