It’s never a right time for peace in Gaza, because Israel doesn’t want it

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s sabre rattling over Iran was well-received by the war-mongering US Republican party. After all, they need the threat of a new war to swing the gullible electorate in their favour.

Likewise, Netanyahu is using the “existential threat to Israel”, from its Arab neighbour, as a crude re-election ploy: he declared that now was not the time to agree a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

The truth, of course, remains the same. There never is a time for Zionists to agree freedom and justice for the Palestinians. Zionism, founded on the 19th century European colonial ideology of racial supremacy, is a dying project, visibly in retreat in Israel and failing to find new support from US president, Barack Obama or from a disillusioned American electorate.