If everyone keeps on thinking this small, we'll never get anywhere. Think small and all you'll get is small.

There are times when the problem is so big, so intractable that only by forcing the issue to operate at a much higher level of intensity do we stand any real chance of dealing with it.

Refocus, push it to the absolute limit; only then will it move in a direction more to our liking.

And we do need to move it on here - by doing the very best we can with what's been available to us all along; a technique that harks back to antiquity, famously recorded in the Old Testament itself.

And, as I recall, its success rate on the day was 100%. Also, important to note; it was a human and not a deity-driven procedure. *

So, if it could be done then, it can certainly be done now.

http://yorketowers.blogspot.com

*clue: 2B1S2M

With all do respect to us all who love and desire peace, we should also, for a change, try and ask what the Palestinians have done in the last 2 years for promoting peace and to solve the conflict. Every time when there is a stalling in the process, automatically fingers are pointed to the Israelis ONLY. Always when the going gets tough, people are criticizing Israel: why Israel does not give more, or why Israel does not this, and that... seriously, it takes 2 to tango! when was the last time the international community has asked why do the Palestinians have not done this or that? where was the world when Israel froze settlement building for 9 months and the other side stood idle refusing to come to the negotiation table? where was the world when the Israelis were and are constantly targeted? it seems unfair to ONLY point the finger at the Jews...

If one wants peace, then both sides need to give and take, not only one side. Why is the process dead if only when the Israelis stand up for their rights too? that is wrong? Israel has no say or stake in the matter? peace should be shared by ALL sides, equally.

If the 1967 borders aren't an acceptable starting point, there should be a general election comprised of ALL the land controlled by Israel, in which ALL native-born residents have an equal vote, to determine just where the borders should be (elect a population-based council of district representatives with binding authority to draw the borders)... OR forget the "two state solution" and create a single, SECTARIAN state.

Anybody who can support Obama during these times must not be paying attention. What he has proposed is a travesty and anyone who calls it anything else is in his pocket and ignorant. He is turning his back on the one true ally the US has in the middle east, the only one......it is a disgrace, he is a disgrace for America. Add to that what he has done to healthcare, Medicare, the US deficit and our reputation around the world with his smug arrogant persona and we have someone that we absolutely have to beat in 2012 no matter what. I cannot believe that anyone who loves Israel, the Jewish faith or peace could actually support this poor excuse for a President......I mean, come on! Everyone in this Country needs to get mad, they need to wake up and look at where we are being led - it is nowhere good, I assure you. We are all going to wake up one day and be living in a "open society", a Marxist state and then it will be too late and then....finally....people are going to wake up and freak out because they will realize the master plans of Obama and his Underground government but it will be too late to fix it or retract it. That is where we are headed and it is coming quickly - we are totally dependent on everyone else - why are we not self reliant? Government now owns healthcare. a good portion of the banking industry, manufacturing, etc.....I look around and I don't even recognize my Country anymore - the beacon of light, hope, peace and freedom.......Capitalism and honor. This Administration left honor and integrity at the door and this latest speech / announcement regarding Israel is just one more thing to add to a growing list of setbacks and failures this "President" has facilitated for America! PATHETIC!!!!!

Durante la 2^ guerra Mondiale la mia Famiglia ha ospitato le due nipoti della giornalista Sarfatti.
Abbiamo rischiato perchè era una cosa giusta perchè erano delle bambine e perchè soffrivano perchè i grandi si facevano la guerra.
Dal 1949 la Palestina, lo Stato Ebraico, Gerusalemme il centro di Culto di diverse Religioni è in Guerra a causa dei "grandi". Con le chiacchiere non si risolve niente. Ci vuole la buona volontà.Il signor Netanyahu è come tutti i politici legati alla Sua formazione di Governo. Ma si ricordi che questi bambini che oggi soffrono e che sono Ebrei o Palestinesi (Demograficamente più palestinesi)non gli saranno grati se non troverà una soluzione veloce giusta ed equilibrata. Giuseppe Bonanno

Vote Palestine a COUNTRY and a UN member in September. Then we will have TWO nations 'negociating'--not a country and a ragtag bunch of regional people arguing. Pals don't want to live in bantustans, 'rezes', or as secondklasse
untermenchen...They don't want the IDF occupying the Jordan Valley. Netanyahu declared that his nation was not an 'occupier', that Judea and Samaris were part of Gross Israel. That there is no
'partner' [judas-goat quisling?] to cave-in and let
God's chosen people take most or all of Palestine.
Let them build a new wall 50 feet high, bristling
with guns. Israel can live 'in peace' behind the
'Great Wall of Israel' All Jews left in Palestine
will be judged and expelled if crazy or beligerant.
Take all the North American redneck evangelicals,
too!..Aaron Allen...

Divide up the land so that all can have a home--
no matter what-- they all need a country.

The Israelis said the same thing about Yasser Arafat and now Abbas who was their friend not too long ago, are no partners for peace.
The fact of the matter is Israel does not want peace and we all are disappointed at the poor excuses Mr. Netanyahu gave,indefensible bordrs in this day and age come on ,Mr Netanyahu is just unable to deliver anything meaningful.

Debra DeLee comments are forceful and correct. But merely pressuring Obama is not enough. The American public and then the Congress must put pressure as well. APN needs broader based more visible marketing. And APN needs a strong Congressional voice. For all their excellence, postings on the APN web site have little impact or visibility. How about a good marketing firm taking over pro bono this campaign and getting it in every major newspaper with ads on every network. And a single loud voice, say Barbara Boxer, take this on as a mission. We're speaking to the angles here.

Once again you people are all self-hating jews. Go idol worship O'bama ben Osama. Stop taking money from HAMAS.

Perhaps the decision to forstall a peaceful agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians has more to do with economics than securing borders. After all,Christians and Jews visiting the holy land generate enormous revenue and both factions would benefit from control. In addition, Mr.Netanyahu is not anxious to deal with the great number of displaced Palestinians waiting to cross the border to their homeland due to the economic strain the government would incur. As it stands now, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza suffer a pitiful, stressful and pathetic existance under Israeli occupation. IMO this quagmire has no solution. It's very sad that this dire situation continues to be so misunderstood and ignored by the rest of the world.

israel is teh biggest threat to world peace. They refuse to follow international law and consensus, they refuse 1 and 2 state solution, they refuse to end illegal annexation, blockade, occupation, wallbuilding, settlments building, refuse to follow some 200+ binding resolutions, refuse to sign the NPT, refuse to let palestinians back home etc. netanyahu is the biggest threat to world peace.

In the last week what I witnessed and heard in America was nothing short of surreal. Prime Minister of Israel Benyamin Netanyahu was paying a visit for talks with President Obama. He was also visiting the Zionist lobby group AIPAC the biggest and most powerful lobby group in America it is also Zionist.

After their discussions Obama and Netanyahu gave a joint press congress. At the conference Netanyahu decided to give Obama an inopportune lesson in Middle East politics publicly belittling him.

Netanyahu hadn’t finished with talking of President Obama’s lack of knowledge of war. President Obama claimed that his expected reference to the continuation of peace talks would be considered from the 1967 lines. Every US president since June 1967 has made the same statement and there is even a UN Security Council Resolution 242 of 1967 that was passed unanimously and accepted by all warring parties.
Netanyahu talked as if Obama has placed Israel on the abyss of Armageddon, furious that Israel was expected to negotiate from the position of indefensible borders. It seems that Netanyahu conveniently forgot that it was from those very borders that Israel attacked the joint armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinian militias and defeated them in six days.

And today the Arab armies are much degraded with little money to spend on defence as their chief backer the USSR disintegrated. Meanwhile America had been supplying Israel with the most modern weapons in its arsenal weapons that have not been introduced to NATO.

But perhaps the single most disgusting scene imaginable was Netanyahu addressing Congress. The congress men and women metaphorically licked Netanyahu shoes jumping to their feet giving him standing ovations every five minutes or so.
The congress couldn’t even show their President such respect but there eyes were open to make sure that the AIPAC could see them treating Netanyahu as if he was some kind of pop star and they the adolescent audience it was a surprise that some didn’t swoon.