NEWS report said Israeli Prime Minister, known as a brutal killer of Palestinians is bent upon destroying every chance of a peaceful solution of the Palestinian crisis. But a study report jointly conducted by some Israelis and Palestinians showed there is still a basis for a two state solution, Netanyahu has taken fresh move to build new settlement on occupied Arab land at Hebron. His move is treated as the most cruel attempt to destroy the peace process, now being shelved for the last two years in a situation when global attention is away from Palestinian cause. The cruelty of Syria war and ISIS brutality to set up an Islamic State in the Middle East and their attacks on European cities are now overshadowing the Palestinian fight for freedom. The world attention is now stolen to battlefield shelving the need for strenuous close door diplomacy to force Israel to agree to strike a peace deal. Many believe that ISIS is a proxy of Israel to push the Palestinian cause totally in the dark. So also the Syrian war is shielding Israel to negotiate with Palestinians. The survey result found that 51 percent of Palestinians and 59 percent of Israelis still support a two-state solution. On Israeli side, 53 percent of Jews support an independent Palestine. Among Israel’s Arab minority, 87 percent favour it. On the other hand, 34 percent of Palestinians and 20 percent of Israelis support a single state where Palestinians and Israelis will share equal rights. The poll comes in a year of rather low-level violence since last September when Palestinians killed 34 Israelis as against 206 Palestinians were killed in Israeli fire. This is an unusual big number that demand making peace when Israeli torture of Palestinians in prisons without trial often makes global media headlines. We know that the key to Palestinian problem lies in the hands of US administration where the Israeli lobby is most powerful to keep away political parties from exerting pressure for a peaceful solution. Since the creation of Israel in 1948, there have been many peace plans. But US support to Israel and follow up action by European countries put them to failure. But public opinion in the USA and Europe has undergone significant change over the past years following Israel’s repeated air war on Gaza and killing of unarmed Palestinians in the West Bank. Many countries now recognize Palestine. After taking office, US President Barack Obama was quick to try to restart the peace process and even succeeded to persuade Netanyahu in 2009 to agree to partial freeze on settlement construction. But Netanyahu always remained evasive to peace process. This is an election year in the USA and Netanyahu is exploiting the influence of Israeli lobby to influence the election. However many believe that a victory by Democratic nominee may help to revive the peace process again.
