You know-the brave lady with the smart husband who recently went wobbly?
This is a totally OUTSTANDING interview.
Just amazing. You have to read the whole thing. You will feel inspired by her wisdom, her clarity and her bravery.
This is one of the best articles/interviews on the Middle East that I have read in a long time. She is chock full of realistic thinking and I wish more people would listen to her. Actually, I quite like Israel Hayom (Israel Today), it's a right of centre publication from Israel and they have some excellent writers and analysts on their team.
So if you get sick of the squishy lefty English news from Israel (Ynet News, Haaretz, Times of Israel, JPost is a bit better, but Israel National News is the most readable.)
On the so called "Israeli-Palestinian" conflict, which is really just plain old jihad, she properly notes that it is not a real estate issue:
"More than one issue is at stake here. Regarding the Israeli-Palestinian context, the main problem is that you may speak of a peace process, but what you get is a process, not peace. And why is this process so prolonged? Because for the Israelis this issue is a territorial problem. For the Palestinian negotiators, on the other hand, it is not a territorial problem but a religious and ethnic one, It is not only about Palestinians but about all Arabs. Most of all, it is a religious problem."
Thank you. That's exactly what it is.
Furthermore:
"From the perspective of the Arab leaders, reaching a two-state solution is to betray God, the Koran, the hadith and the tradition of Islam."
In other words: IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN
Read my lips: Containment.
But the whole interview is outstanding.
