The Peace Process is Dead, and You Have Killed it.

Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: “I am looking for God! I am looking for God!”
As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? or emigrated? Thus they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.

“Where has God gone?” he cried. “I shall tell you. We have killed him — you and I. We are his murderers.

— The Gay Science, Nietzsche, 1882.

The Peace Process didn’t die last week when two police officers were killed by a Palestinian terrorist on the Temple Mount, and the Peace Process didn’t die this weekend with the gruesome murder of three Israelis by another terrorist, The Peace Process died sometime between the last time a Palestinian put on a suicide vest and blew up a bus, and the first time one picked up a knife to hack an Israeli to death. All that is left is to acknowledge that today Peace is impossible. The Two State Solution can for now be put on a shelf to be admired like a trophy that has no practical use. If it is insanity to walk the same path over and over again and expect to arrive at a new destination, then those who would have us walk the path of the Peace Process intend to make madmen out of all of us.

The Peace Process is referred to with such mindless love and religious devotion that no one ever thinks anymore about its consequences. It died at the hands of people who posses the kind of morality that is akin to rare elements and particles that are created and can exist only in the sterile conditions of a laboratory and which shatter and collapse at the slightest touch of reality.

In the midst of the religious fervor with which they pray to the Two State Solution to deliver us from conflict, they never stop to wonder what a Palestinian State might look like. Is there any doubt that if a Palestinian State were brought into being today, it would be one which supports terror, violence, and hatred? Is there any evidence to the contrary? Does the Palestinian leadership sell anything else? Support anything else?

Every major political and religious player in the Palestinian sphere welcomed the attack last weekend and then again this weekend, with none offering the slightest bit of condemnation or remorse. Where were Abbas’s tears for Peace?

The leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh called the father of the Palestinian who carried out Halamish attack to say: ‘Your son brought pride to the nation.’ Who would want to bring a state with such horribly disfigured values into being? The Palestinian’s only contribution to the world so far has been the proliferation of hijackings and suicide bombs, it’s no wonder then that they see metal detectors as an inexcusable affront to their way of life.How do the acolytes of The Peace Process intend to bring Peace with one side dedicated to violence? They seem to think the solution is to ignore it.

How then could Israelis be expected to participate in the grotesque charade that treats the murder as a minor inconvenience but metal detectors as a cataclysmic affront to history? The Peace Process didn’t die at Shabbat dinner in a small town in the West Bank and it didn’t die on the Temple Mount. It died at the hands of those who won’t see what is in front of them.

To borrow a phrase from Nietzsche: The Peace Process is dead, and you have killed it.