As an independent party, the “Chance For Sanity” party will have a unique change to solve the problems in the Mid-East. For decades the United States has tried and failed to solve the problem and usually made it worse with one notable exception. Carter’s Began-Sadat Reproachment forty years ago is still keeping another major war from happening.

Why have the rest failed? It is because the Israelis push a guilt trip on us every time we tried to balance the support we give to both sides. Do the Palestinians have cause not to trust the Israel government? Yes! Palestinians allowed the Jewish people to stay in the area for centuries as friends. They fought the Turks together in World War I. The problems started when the Zionists pushed out the British army, declared it a Jewish country, fought neighboring Arab countries, and confiscated Arab owned land without compensation. Palestinians were forced to move to refugee camps in Gaza and Jordan. Israel signed the Oslo Accord agreeing to a two state solution but each time it gets close, Israel comes up with something to kill it and guilt us into saying it wasn’t their fault. We have allowed them to continue taking Arab farms and Palestinian land on the West Bank. Because of these failures the Palestinians have split into a moderate and radical group.

To add to the situation the Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia is supported and directed by Iran. The supply line goes through Syria and Iraq which are becoming more under Iran’s influence.

The Middle East problem has three corners. Two are different sects of the Muslim religion. The third is a paranoid Israel whose leadership creates problems with the Palestinians to stay in power. The Iranian theocracy has dreams of reviving the Persian Empire. Within five years they may have complete control of Iraq or merged into a combined country with the Supreme Leader Ayatollah directing both countries unless we can stop it.

The “best” way to fix the problem is to move our Embassy back to Tel Aviv and quietly tell Israel’s leadership to implement the two states Oslo Accord within one year or our billions in support will stop. We should set up an Arab Bank to fund the new state and move half the people out of Gaza to other Arab countries. Re-starting the nuclear deal with Iran would stop their bomb materials work and get new treaties on ending their connections with the Houthis and Hezbollah armies. We must get Assad and Russia out of Syria so rebuilding can occur and the Syrians in Europe can go back home. Getting Syria stable and controlled by the 74% Sunnis should curb the Shia Iran’s control. Quiet diplomacy to overcome our history of misadventure in Iran might reduce conservative influence and help the moderate “liberals” to take power.

Syria is the most dangerous conflict in the world. President Assad is fighting the rebels and Isis. We are working with the Iraqi Army. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard colonels and generals are working with the Shia Militias. We are also supporting the area’s best troops — the Kurds.

The Kurdish homeland is Northeastern Syria, Western Turkey, Northern Iraq (no fly zone), and Western Iran. We have had the Kurd’s back since Saddam gassed them. Turkey did little to hinder ISIS in getting supplies and people across their border because they were killing Kurds. Turkey has recently attacked the Syrian Kurds west of our Kurds battle line and says our Kurds are next.

The Iranians have pulled over 2,000 of their Lebanese Hezbollah troops to fight the Syrian rebels. This allowed Assad to let the Iranians send munitions across Syria. Israel has bombed some of the convoys but thousands of short range missiles have gotten through to Lebanon and Gaza.

Russia has supported Assad with weapons and “Mercenaries” to prop him up. They fight side-by-side with the Syrian Army and in one instance against an American advised Kurd unit. The Americans called in air and artillery support killing over 200 Russians. In return for support the little Russian base has been greatly increased in size, troops, and power.

We have set up a protected “Refuge” area in Southeast Syria funded by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. American air power destroyed a Syrian force about to attack the “Refugees.”

Our April 13/14 missile attack was done after telling the Russians and Syrians where and when so nobody got hurt in hitting empty buildings and bunkers. It was a symbolic attack in an extremely complicated area where a bigger war can easily happen.