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Tragically, both many in the Palestani and other Arab communities, on the one hand, and many Israelis, on the other, too often express intractable, hard-line positions regarding each other.  This both makes it next to impossible to commence meaningful peace negotiations and for thrid parties to be of any utility in helping to facilitate such negotiations.

It doesn't follow, however, that any useful purpose is served by having third parties, like Canada or the US, siding unconditionally with one of the two primary parties to this ongoing, simmering conflict.  Further, for Political Parties in the Western Democracies to take such cynical onesided positions for domestic partisan purposes is doubly reprehensible.