Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. What mysterious hocus-pocus makes U.S. presidents believe they can settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
President after president sends his secretary of state to the region to get talks started, John Kerry is only the most recent of many. We have never had much success, and won't this time.
See an article from der Spiegel about Israel's Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, a businessman-turned-politician who heads the Jewish Home party and who opposes any agreement with the Palestinians.
Bennett is firmly convinced of what Hezbollah wants: "They all still have a single goal in mind -- to kills us." Rather than acquiesce to an agreement, Bennett says he will pull his party out of Netanyahu's parliamentary coalition, causing it to lose its majority.
