Visionary Israel

Some leaders have vision, but can't seem to make things happen on the ground. Others can pull things off on the ground but lack vision. Ehud Barak had the vision to offer Yassir Arafat the best deal that the Israeli people would have accepted at that time, but Arafat rejected it and started the Intifada. Netanyahu lacks the vision to offer the Palestinians a deal they can accept. He has the ability to keep things as they are with a temporary peace. The Israeli people are willing to accept the status quo because a temporary peace maintained by military superiority and a fence beats a present war. When Barak offered his best deal to Arafat, it was rejected. When Barak again tried to create a Palestine with a first step out of Gaza, the Palestinians elected Hamas and used Gaza as a base to fire rockets into Israel. My advice to the Palestinians is this. Cultivate and enable the visionary Israel of people like Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni, or you will be stuck with the Netanyahus.