At the last round of meetings, only Jordan and Egypt signed the
Treaty.
Within the Palestinians Community - is there any single
authority when it is split between the PLA and the Hamas.
The last face to face peace negotiation was during the
meeting between the late Arafat and Perez hosted by Clinton, then
Arafat did not closed the deal and refused to sign on the dotted
lines.
Syria, Iran, Libya, Morroco, Saudi Arabia, Algeria,
Sudan, Iraq, Kuwait, and UAE have all not signed any treaty that
guarantee the existence of the State of Israel or its people.
As long as the PLA and Hamas cannot agree with Israel, they are
allowing Israel to place a de facto claim on the territory
occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War - that
war was imposed on Israel when all the Arab Nations had raised
a huge military force to crush Israel.
It was superior Isralie intelligence and an efficient
military that allowed Israel - with a smaller military
force - to make a pre-emptive strike that neutralised the huge
Arab military which outnumbered Israeli Defense
Force by 10 to 1.
In 1967, the threat was based on a conventional
military warfare scenario.
During the Yom-Kippur War of 1973, Egypt launched a
surprise conventional military strike on an unprepared Israel
during her national holy day celebrated by Jews.
When Egypt can launch a conventional strike
without warning that allowed her to regain the Sinai
Peninsular - which had served as a buffer space for
Israel - can Israel survive any surprise nuclear
attack from any Arab countries that remained hostile and are
only 500 to 1000 kilometers from Israel ?
Put Singapore in the same position as Israel - under the same
political circumstances - it will be doubtful if you will not
follow in the same strategic ways taken by Israel.
Out of curiousity, what do you think would be Israel's incentive
to settle problems and compromise with its neighbours in a more
diplomatic manner when it knows it has the world's biggest
military backing it ?
Why would i want to compromise with people who don't like me
when i have the biggest stick around and i know the neighbourhood
policeman is going to back me up when i get in trouble?
Yes Israel has a valid concern about its safety when its
neighbour do not officially accept its existence. But by engaging
in pro active strikes and aggressive moves against its neighbours
the stituation would never be resolved.
The populace already have alot of reasons to hate the Israelis
and it would be very difficult for any of chauvinistic Muslim
leaders to initiate compromise without looking weak and inept to
their own people.
I do not think it can be blamed on the religion itself.
Politicians do what they have already done for thousands of years
they are more interested in making decisions that would allow them
to stay longer in power, not neccessarily for the welfare of the
people they are responsible for.
Instead, it would furthur encourage them to seek nuclear weapons
in order to protect themselves. They're not stupid and they've
already seen what happened to Iraq, none of them have any doubt it
could happen to them especially Iran.
I don't think using Singapore is a good example. Our existence
came about as a natural process in the region while Israel were
forced upon the Middle East, a decision made without the consensus
of the surrounding region. The majority of Singaporeans then were
already living here long before independence and though our
existence is disliked we are more tolerated than hated. .
