http://www.time.com/time/world...
The truth? In the week that three Presidents, a King and their own Prime Minister gather at the White House to begin a fresh round of talks on peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the truth is, Israelis are no longer preoccupied with the matter. They're otherwise engaged; they're making money; they're enjoying the rays of late summer. A watching world may still define their country by the blood feud with the Arabs whose families used to live on this land and whether that conflict can be negotiated away, but Israelis say they have moved on.
No shit. Steal land, sell condos. Fuck stopping us... there is too much to gain.
Peace would mess with profits.
Asked in a March poll to name the "most urgent problem" facing Israel, just 8% of Israeli Jews cited the conflict with Palestinians, putting it fifth behind education, crime, national security and poverty. Israeli Arabs placed peace first, but among Jews here, the issue that President Obama calls "critical for the world" just doesn't seem - critical.
They are doing well without it. The plight of Palestine isn't even on their radar.
Yet more proof that Israel is ILLIBERAL (per essay below) and is land of neo-cons.... as if attacking a PEACE SHIP didn't already prove that to the World.
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