Re-starting the Peace Process

With the newly elected government of Israel not properly settled in, the pressure from world powers on Israel to start the Peace Process with the Palestinians began in all earnest. Diplomats and envoys queued-up to visit Israel in the coming months.

In his latest book, Sparks from Zion, David Rubin, former mayor of Shiloh made some interesting observations and offers practical suggestions. The author posits that after 30 years of Middle East peace summits and conferences – with tens of millions of dollars wasted, over 1,600 Israeli lives lost in terrorist attacks and tens of thousands of others injured in the past 20 years alone – one is justified in asking: Why not try something new?

“Why expose ourselves to dangerous negotiations, instead of proposing and attempting to implement our own peace plan, fair to everybody including Palestinians?

Rubin believes that the peace process has always failed, and will continue to disappoint us and the world at large, until we base our negotiations on biblical principles, historical justice and, above all, common sense. The “land for peace” formula has chipped away at Israel’s concrete peace assets, a part of the Arab strategy aimed at the weakening of the Jewish state, the eternal sovereign inheritance of the Jewish people – which at this time (after Jordan was cut of Mandatory Palestine) should consist of territory from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.

David Rubin brought some interesting and fresh perspectives to the debate on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Certainly the most important is that Israel should apply biblical principles while conducting peace negotiations.