Vice President Joseph Biden has told Israel that the U.S. is willing to stand by those who will "take risks for peace."
Biden also told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that he was confident Israel was prepared to take such risks.
You mean, oh, like maybe abandoning Gaza to Hamas unilaterally - ceding the land that Hamas claimed was "theirs" - and being rewarded with continual rocket attacks ever since. They took a risk. And Hamas fucked them. Biden would do well to remember that Israel has taken this risk, and many others, since 1948, with no resulting peace. He would also do well to note that while Israel has built stadiums, museums, schools, churches, industry, roads, and farms, the Palestinians have built rockets, suicide vests, and protest signs. Find me one Palestinian drama troupe that's not just running plays about Israeli oppression.
Israelis and Palestinians face a "moment of real opportunity" to make peace after agreeing to resume American-brokered talks, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday as he launched the highest-level visit by an Obama administration official to Israel.
Monday's announcement of indirect talks, which will be held through a U.S. mediator, broke a 14-month deadlock and marked President Barack Obama's first substantive diplomatic achievement in the region.
But the new peace push is sure to face enormous challenges, including sharp divisions among the Palestinians and a hardline Israeli government seen as unlikely to make wide-ranging concessions.
"I think we are at a moment of real opportunity, and I think that the interests of the Israeli and Palestinian people, if everybody stops and takes a deep breath, are actually more in line than they are opposites," Biden said ahead of a meeting with Israel's president, Shimon Peres.
Biden said he hoped the beginning of indirect talks would be "a vehicle by which we can begin to allay that layer of mistrust that has built up in the last several years."
They'll talk. The US will lean on Israel to make a concession. Israel will, to keep aid and assistance flowing. The Palestinians will ignore it. The rockets will still fly from Hamas in Gaza. Israel will retaliate. The world press will complain at Israel without bothering to investigate Hamas' behavior.
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