For sixty years, Arab countries have been offering peace deals to Israel and it always refuses to even negotiate. Even now, Arab leaders have a peace offer on the table and it is Israel who is refusing to discuss it. Please don't talk about democracy. Israel is allied with dictatorships in the region and it refuses to discuss peace with Hamas who was democratically elected and instead chose to begin negotiations with Fatah because they were rejected by the people of Palestine. Israel knows well that any agreement reached with Fatah will be irrelevant and useless because the Fatah gov't is not the true representative of its people. You might call Hamas irrelevant too, but in fact Gaza is safer and more structured now than ever; that's why Palestinians voted for Hamas. Hamas is even paying salaries whilst Israel steals Palestinian revenues. Tim from Australia
Source: AJP
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