Endgame

If there is any one statement made in the last 10 years that better reflects the cowardice of this period, this is it.

Abbas calls on Obama to impose Mideast peace deal

It's your people, dumbass. You're the prime minister. Americans are not standing in the way. And, by and large, Israelis are not standing in the way. What's standing in the way is the willingness of Palestinians (and Israelis, to a lesser extent) to give up the bullshit and stop using peace deals as a means of manipulating for more shit.

Who cares about who gets what shit, you assholes? Sign a deal and stop killing people. It's not fucking rocket science.

And finally figure out that all of you are going to have to learn how to live with one another and stop killing each other. The end, maestro. Buh-dum-bum.

This is the consequence of all this rationalization of pressure, in lieu of responsibility, as political gamesmanship. It rationalizes the very kinds of games that Palestinian terrorist groups have played for years to get more stuff and kill more Israelis and Palestinians to get it.

This shit has got to end, in the broadest sense, if the world is to get safer for real. For any moron who isn't defending the bullshit along with them.

If Palestinians and Israelis want to be safe, they need to stop killing one another and to make arrangements to capture or kill those not prepared to end that ugly legacy and all of the horrific consequences that this security nightmare has created for Palestinians and Israelis.

And they need to genuinely commit themselves to live in peace. Period. Everything else is gravy. Or any number of excuses for why they'd rather people continue to die than to settle this insanity once and for all.

There are no winners in this kind of politics. And many, many dead losers.

Time for this to end.