Actually, there is a road map to peace in the middle east, and it is this: clear, well-defined and well-defended borders, and a well-trained well-armed defense force.
You have to be clear with yourself that “peace in the middle east” is what you will create within your own borders. It will be an act of your own civilized and determined will. It will exist where you are prepared to establish it and defend it.
There may some day be peace among arabs, but you can’t let your own peace be held hostage to the toxic disfunction of the most toxicly disfunctional societies on the planet. If you want peace, then build it, defend it, make no apology for it. Be prepared to fight for it, because if you aren’t, it won’t exist anywhere.
As for Blair’s peace mission, this is one man on this earth with a guaranteed job security like none other. If he chooses as his mission bringing peace to the arab world this side of heaven, he has taken on a task that will see him well into his golden years, a job he could confidently pass on to his eldest son and grandson after him. Peace in the middle east will exist where peaceful people settle, which is to say, within Israeli borders. In the absense of a peaceful populace, there will never be peace, which means that Blair’s services will be in permanent demand as long as he wants the gig.
“As for Blair’s peace mission, this is one man on this earth with a guaranteed job security like none other”
Great line!