The race is about to begin. One of the contestants sits down on the sidelines and announces that he will not run in the race so long as the other competitor is running. The referee says that the other competitor is properly entered in the race and entitled to run. The sitting contestant then calls for the referee to be replaced or he will pull out of the race (in which he won't run anyway.)
This may sound somewhat convoluted, but it's pretty close to what is happening now with the Palestinian Authority. President Abbas of the PA has long said that he will not make peace with Israel. Nor will the PA ever recognize the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. Despite this, the rest of the world has long accepted the view of the Palestinian Authority and tried to hold a "peace process" to move towards a resolution of the conflict. No matter what the Palestinian Authority is offered, however, it is never enough. Much like the runner who refuses to run the race, the PA refuses to take part in any peace negotiations with Israel. So now the USA (the referee in our example) has announced that it will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The PA response is to call for the US to no longer be the intermediary between Israel and Palestine in the peace negotiations (which are not actually happening.) Today, the PA called for the USA to be replace by the UN in the non-existent peace negotiations.
If there weren't people's lives at stake in this mess, it would be funny to watch the PA in action. It's slapstick at its finest.
This may sound somewhat convoluted, but it's pretty close to what is happening now with the Palestinian Authority. President Abbas of the PA has long said that he will not make peace with Israel. Nor will the PA ever recognize the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. Despite this, the rest of the world has long accepted the view of the Palestinian Authority and tried to hold a "peace process" to move towards a resolution of the conflict. No matter what the Palestinian Authority is offered, however, it is never enough. Much like the runner who refuses to run the race, the PA refuses to take part in any peace negotiations with Israel. So now the USA (the referee in our example) has announced that it will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The PA response is to call for the US to no longer be the intermediary between Israel and Palestine in the peace negotiations (which are not actually happening.) Today, the PA called for the USA to be replace by the UN in the non-existent peace negotiations.
If there weren't people's lives at stake in this mess, it would be funny to watch the PA in action. It's slapstick at its finest.
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