Israel needs an amazing path forward

It wasn’t all that long ago that Israel owned the Sinai Peninsula following its 1967 Six-Day War with Egypt.

A decade later, Israel gave the territory back, after a long weekend/week of negotiations in the U.S. at Camp David led by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. It was a historic event.

So, why can’t Israel figure out how to be friends with all its neighbors nearly 60 years later?

There’s a ton of hatred wrapped up in the region, but a fair question is how much has that been instigated by Israel through failed negotiations?

The current war with Hamas, and now Iran, is not doing Israel nor the U.S. any favors on a peaceful future.

A key to that is future is a belief that Israel is being truthful and fair with its surrounding community - especially Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A lot of America does not believe that is the case.

A New America Party objective will be to get Israel to be less of a hated nation to its neighbors, something that will require truly amazing efforts by Israel itself. And other nations, such as Saudi Arabia.

So, where is Saudi Arabia in all this mess that the world calls the ‘Middle East’?

Why cannot the leaders of Saudi Arabia play some role in peaceful negotiations between Israel and the Iran?

Where is the King of Jordan on all the wartime issues?

Israel has a right to defend itself, but it’s treatment of the Palestinian population it controls is not one it wants to show off to the world because it’s very bad. 

And, the rest of the Middle East just seems to be content to allow whatever happens inside Israel happen and not be involved; at least that’s the view from behind a television in the U.S.

The New America Party is for promoting more non-stop negotiations that will find a peaceful way for Israel to co-exist with its neighbors, and the Palestinians it controls. That’s a goal that’s thousands of years in the making.

Israels's leaders are going to need to have a much tougher chin than they are showcasing currently with their war with Iran and Lebanon.