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this time and last year were never anything but a sham pretext to make the excuse for the bombing they wanted to do all along.

It is a rare instance, if ever, in over 100 years of "negotiations" in the Middle East where the parties have been sincere. Agreements reached are breached before the ink is dry and are really just preamble for the next round of misery and then duplicitous "negotiations".

There is the road never taken and this allows all of the parties to always demand their entire position be met. Any conditions in agreements are crafted by one side or the other with behind the scenes planning for how to use the resulting situation to go back at obtaining what they seemed to bargain about.

It is this way with the Israeli governments as well. There will never be peace in any region of the world when parties "negotiate" with each other on such a fundamentally disingenuous basis. The countries in the region learned the lesson long ago that the world at large will always be an endless supply of money and weapons as the big powers in the world jockey over oil and power using all kinds of various groups and strategies. The "friend" they arm today to kill ones that are an obstacle to their aims will be targeted by a "new friend" the big powers will choose tomorrow.