Jamaica Gleaner Published: Tuesday | December 11, 2012 Home :
Commentary Dead, dead, dead: the Mideast 'peace process'  As
soon as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced that Israel
will build 3,000 homes on 'East One' (E-1), the last piece of
land connecting East Jerusalem with the West Bank that is not
already covered with Jewish settlements, the ritual
condemnations started to flow. Even United States (US) Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton said, "These activities set back the
cause of a negotiated peace," and others went a lot further.
The British minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, warned
that "the settlements plan ... has the potential to alter the
situation on the ground on a scale that threatens the viability
of a two-state solution". France called in the Israeli
ambassador and told him that "settlements are illegal under
international law ... and constitute an obstacle to a fair peace
based on a two-state solution".  In almost all the media
coverage, the Israeli announcement is explain