| The Israeli Labor Party supports peace talks and negotiations, but only as an end in themselves, never as a means to achieve peace. The Israeli plan to preempt the "Saudi peace plan" has probably already succeeded. Apart from the domestic difficulties involved, there are the practical problems with resettling 350,000 people, even over an extended period of time. Israel did a good job of botching the resettlement of 9000 Gaza settlers just to underline this point. This is the issue in which Labor should be asserting themselves if they favored peace. The Israeli Labor Party is a "place holder" in the political spectrum. They occupy the place where there would otherwise be a party that actually favored peace and not just peace talks, at least in any nation other than Israel. |
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