The Middle East conflict at the root of many other conflicts.

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Kofi Annan, former UN Secretaire General and now a mediator in International conflicts and advocating issues of importance to him personally such as the environment, food security and global poverty through the Kofi Annan foundation.  Said in an interview with ALJAZEERA’s journalist Teymoor Nabili in Singapore that the Israeli-Palestinian conflictis the single most charged conflict in the world today with an international impact like no other conflict. Affecting almost every one and being the catalyst and maybe even the cause for several other conflicts and troubles deriving from this single conflict that remains unresolved for already over two generations now.

We have seen Israel acting in Lebanon, we have seen Israel acting in Gaza in recent history and now we see Israel ignoring the security counsel once more and defying even the US Governments plea for reason and change in favour of a peaceful and fair solution for all parties involved.

Israel is not only defying the UN or the US any longer but the rest of the world as well.

Alon Liel, a professor of international relations at Tel Aviv University and the former head of Israel's foreign ministry, said, “The Quartet is united (UN, EU, Russia and the US) on this issue and the Quartet [of Middle East mediators] is the world. Israel is going to be internationally isolated if it persists in refusing to negotiate a fair and responsible peace with the Palestinian as well as allowing the establishment of a Palestinian State along with Israel.”

The current politics of expropriations and settlement of the predominantly Arab east of the city of Jerusalem by the Israeli Government which illegally annexed it after the 1967 Middle East war. This City is to be the capital of any future independent Palestinian state and claimed as such by Israel as well. Making these current settlement policies not only provocative and defying. More so it is a threat and an attempt to black mail the International community to surrender to Israel's continued violations of international laws as Tayseer Khaled an executive committee member from the PLO said on Wednesday dismissing Netanyahu's comments that the peace negotiations could be put on hold for another year as "threats.”

Why, it may be best if Jerusalem becomes a State on its own, that is neither Israeli nor Palestinian. Jerusalem the free and independent city state may be the start to a peace accord in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The UN security counsel needs to be reformed ultimately, for it does no longer reflect the geo-political reality and has become impotent to renegade states such as Israel, Zimbabwe, North Korea, Miramar or Sudan.  “The right to resist an occupation, a terrorist threat or self defence has to be understood in its true meaning, it cannot include the right to deliberately kill or mane civilians.”

The Goldstone report, even though a sound and well-balanced report was largely ignored because it was not liked by Israel. Rather then debate it, it was trashed by its opponents for it was all to accurate and Israel could not win any argument against this report so it simply forced all to abandon using it as a reference in hope to be able to negotiate a peace agreement with Israel.

This however, has not happen either since the Israeli government has kept on defying all and every one and made any hope for a peace accord more unlikely today then ever before.

At a meeting in Moscow on Friday, the Quartet of Middle East mediators comprising the UN, the US, the EU and Russia, called on Israel to freeze settlement activity in line with a 2003 peace "road map" which also obliged the Palestinians to take action to disarm fighters.

Maybe the Kana’an, whose descendant now live in Tunisia, should add their claim to this part of the world, after all, they where the original owners until they where overrun by the Persian who owned it as well and this long before the current inhabitants ancestors did set foot on the land of milk and honey. This is in part why a fair and reasonable peace agreement is so vital and this not only for the Middle Eastern countries. This conflict off ludicrous claims, based on false belief on both sides, has no end in sight if not resolved by the International community, this issue will keep igniting more and more bush fires around the globe if not settled once and for all.