PA Refuses to Negotiate; Western Media Focuses on Failure to Agree on Shape of Table
Reading the generally mindless and superficial reporting during the past few days about the “failure of the peace process”, I am left wondering what sort of alternate reality the media lives in. The “peace process” has not achieved results for one simple reason, namely the Palestinian Authority’s unwillingness to actually negotiate the substantive issues that must be decided in order to reach peace and secure the independent State of Palestine that they claim — at least to Western audiences — to want. Instead, the PA ludicrously claims that it cannot negotiate peace because Israel refuses to accede to the PA’s demands concening the shape of the table at which the parties will sit, and the Western media report the story as though the shape of the table, rather than borders, security and mutual recognition, which is the actual substantive point of the exercise. Pathetic.