Dear Sir,

The levels of sabotage by the 'Greater Israel' factions to thwart a two state solution are as solidly inked as David Ben-Gurion's own words during Israel's war of independence:

“We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return."

The sabotage also includes the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who dared to sign the Oslo Accord in the first place.

What's next in your line of logic?

For the Palestinians to accept 'good faith' proposals while illegal settlers are occupying and expanding into the very territory being offered up for a two state definition?

Greater Israel is all about a continuation of ethnic cleansing in order to create a larger state for Jews.

What do Netanyahu's words in 2014 say to the Palestinians, let alone to the Israeli Arabs about Israel?

"The nation-state of the Jewish people, and the Jewish people alone".

What about the oil and natural gas off the shores of Gaza to say nothing of the same under the West Bank?

Can't have any united Palestinians holding on to that level of wealth and power?

So, divide and conquer...which has been the modus operandi even before 1948.

And as to the courage of Norway, Spain and Ireland?

How pretentiously ethnocentric to think such recognition has anything to do with hostility towards Israel.

Rather, it has everything to do with a signal to any rogue state operating outside international laws.

Even more?

It is a signal that the hypocrisy and obfuscation and blatant racism of any apartheid state, especially one which hides its avaricious violence under a tired and shredded cloak of 'never again' victimhood, can no longer call itself the only democracy in the Middle East.

South Africa, and other states BTW, are pointing out the illogical narrative that Israel is the only reasonable nation at the bargaining table.

It is not just a ludicrous epithet but also one which leaves out the most obvious:

Israel has become the very embodiment of the jack- booted nation they once feared, and that dear sir, is more than a pity, it is a shame.