An Open Letter to Israel and Palestine

Dear Israelis, Dear Palestinians.

Since 1947, the date of the creation of the state of Israel and the start of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, much has been said, many conferences and "peace deals" have been set up or put into writing, but as this generation looks back through the past it recollected with certitude that not much has changed.
As of today we are mingled in a very noxious situation, always been a rock and a hard place, and so there isn't much room form mutual understanding or cooperation. As of today it seems that in such a dear, important moment, an opportune moment unlike any other that can not go to waste. Winds and breezes of change whistle throughout the the corridors of power of the Middle East, forever changing the "geopolitics" of the region, forever changing the people's conception of power and of democracy, reinstating hope and the belief that common hands can change "destiny".
And yet shades of grey are tainting the bright whiteness of newly found freedom. One biggest grey spot on the awesome frame. That being the quagmire of the Isreali/Palestinian conflict.
These last day have proven to the world and the international community that even if the "times are a changing" in the Middle East in some aspects, on some topics the "road-blocks" are so imposing that little or in this  case nothing is changing. Mr. Netanyahu visit to Washington was a failure in every sens of the term, first of diplomatically he did not (did he even try is the question) to warm up the bilateral relations between his administration and Mr. Obama's, but he didn't really need to make an effort because of the importance of the Israeli lobby. Second of all he proved to be once again part of an almost extinct "race" of political leaders, the commonly called old guard, that still believes that nothing is shifting in the Middle East, that was brought up with the idea that the Arabs and Arab nations we're "unfit" for democracy, and he proved that Israel was certainly unfit for peace.
Netanyahu said during his speech before Congress, that he remembered the time when he and Jon Biden we're the "new boys in town", well as this generation recollects on his past and the present, one thing is evident, the Israeli "disengagement" in the common welfare of their neighbours is one of the roots of evil. And during this "Arab spring" it is just astonishing how many evil roots have been uprooted.
The message I want to try with  my mere words to my Israeli and Palestinian friends, to those moderates who believe that over terror, blood, fear and tears, compassion and cooperation is stronger. Is that the message that started as a writing on the wall, became a whisper and then form a flame grew an uncontrollable blaze, and that it's time to ignite the flair of revolt in Israel and in Palestine.
First of all one must recognize that the aspirations of the Palestinian people for statehood, to build a legitimate and internationally recognized "home" are as important as those as the (Post second world war) Jewish claim for Israel. We must recognize that the context of the building/independence of the state of Israel legitimate and that the crimes of WWII will never be buried in the dust of time, but that this context, this past experience does not give the Israelis the right to act in the way they do with the Palestinians people. It must be known that without of the recognition of the righteous cause of the state of Israel by the Palestinian political body and by all of the Palestinian actors no peace can be found. As much it is a right for the Palestinians to live in peace within their home land, so too is it the right for Israeli families to live without fear within their households and neighbourhoods. Terrorist organizations should cease to exist and each actor should renounce violence. And most important of all in my view the "colonization" of the West Bank should come to an end immediately.
But the greatest problem is that these are just words, words can surely create actions and engender change but for change to really occur men must give life to the writings. The future of the Middle East as we have seen isn't in the hands of dictators, or international organizations, it isn't in hands of Washington or of Tel Aviv or of Ramallah, and certainly not in the hands of extremists that hijacked the two actors of the conflict for too long.
It's in the hands of the peoples of Israel and of Palestine, as it is in the hands of the Egyptians, the Tunisians, the Syrians, the Yemenis and of the Spanish.
Sky