Why Israel’s Right will stay in power

There I go being hopeful again. This hope business so distresses the brain wounded right.

I see Israel turning even more to the Right out of sheer necessity to survive. Palestinians are land pirates and terrorists. There will never be two state. In the end there can be only one. Israel's security lies in military prowess, not in caving in to murderers, terrorists and thieves.

Even the settlers don't bother to use the security argument any longer. They justify what they are doing on ideological grounds. Do extreme ideologies make good politics? Rarely if ever.

however, the only way his political right-wing coalition will be able to achieve peace with the Palestinians and the remaining Arab states, is by adopting the centre-left policies which have been deliberated over the last few decades under the helms of former Prime Ministers Rabin, Barak, Sharon and Olmert. The Quartet might have a little input as well.

That the Jewish Israelis are skeptical of the possibility of reaching a Peace agreement with the Palestinians is reasonable. But why does not believing the Peace is possible have to do with the enterprise of settlement of the West Bank which forces a life of less and less human rights upon its Palestinian inhabitants? I am sympathetic to the "Security Right"'s point-of-view but the "Settlement Right," this only undermines the legitimate concerns of Israel by making the issue of "The Occupation" and its gross violation of the human rights of the Palestinians there, the primary focus of the conflict as far as the world is concerned.