Israel and Palestine must talk about peace

Israel leadership is reacting the wrong way to the Palestinian reconciliation. Prime Minister Netanyahu should be happy that Hamas is now getting a bit more into the main stream. And he should re-engage the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on peace matters.

Peace talks, one should be reminded, are never held with your friends. They sit around the table people that have been at one another´s throats for quite some time. They take place between enemies. They are often very difficult to accept as the other side has been killing our own people. But there is no other way to sort out a conflict but by talking to our foes. In Middle East, in Northern Ireland, in South Sudan, all over the place.

Therefore the Palestinian move towards their own reconciliation is no acceptable excuse to stop the peace process. It can, however, be used as pretext to halt a move that in any case was not genuine. Is it the case?