How the West is preventing peace
Khaled Abu Toameh argues that 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Abbas believes that the international community is negotiating with Israel on behalf of the Palestinians. He is fully convinced that only increased pressure on Israel, and not negotiations, will bring about a full withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders.There's another issue here. Abu Toameh refers to the need to return to negotiations 'before it is too late.' For the 'Palestinians,' it is never too late. They have turned down a state numerous times, and each time they turn it down, it is reoffered to them on even better terms. The only way the 'Palestinians' will come to the table is if there are consequences that derive from them not coming to the table.
And since the whole world, with the possible exception of the US Administration, “is on our side,” why bother return to the negotiating table with Israel?
The belief among the Palestinian leadership is that it is only a matter of time before Israel succumbs to the growing international pressure.
By negotiating with Abbas and his government, the Western governments are, in fact, keeping the Palestinians from resuming peace talks with Israel. Instead of negotiating with Abbas, these governments should be urging him to return to the negotiations with Israel as soon as possible and before it is too late.
But for now Abbas does not seem to be in a rush; this is why those who believe that real peace talks could be “revived” in the near future are living under an illusion. Abbas has set out his demands and conditions in a clear and straight manner and he is waiting for the international community to help him achieve all his goals.
Israel should be annexing land in Judea and Samaria every few months that the 'Palestinians' don't negotiate. It should be founding new Jewish towns and building on that land. Now, I know that many of you think that won't happen, and I realize the odds of Israel's leadership actually finding the courage to do what I suggest are not good. On the other hand, Israel may have no choice because of the 'Supreme Court' ruling relating to Route 443.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Israel has no solution to the dilemma presented by the 'Supreme Court' other than the legislative solution of annexing the highway. If the court insists on doing the same thing with the other highways from which 'Palestinians' are banned for security reasons, it is likely that we will have to annex those highways too. That could open up the possibility of Israel finally getting on with life by annexing land as an antidote to the 'Palestinian' refusal to come to the table. And that might actually force the 'Palestinians' to negotiate.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:07 PM
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just look at the Pali map
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Majlis Studying Sen. Kerry's Request To Visit Iran
An Iranian legislator announced today that the Majlis's Foreign Relations Committee is studying U.S. Senator John Kerry's request to visit Iran.
"The (National Security and Foreign Policy) commission will be informed of the committee's decision and the result will be delivered to media," said Javad Jahangirzadeh, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, which is a subcommittee of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.
He also underlined that even a visit by the U.S. Senator would have no impact on Iran-U.S. relations.
Source: Fars, Iran, December 30, 2009
Carl - agreed. With the Palestinians violating their commitments and refusing to talk to Israel, there is no sense in Israel continuing to pretend peace is just around the corner. Israel should apply Israeli law, administration and jurisdiction over those parts of Judea and Samaria it now controls. They would become sovereign Israeli territory. If the Palestinians don't like it, so sad, too bad. No one else gets a do-over for their mistakes.
NormanF - I totally agree. With the way the international "community" is painting Israel into a corner, Israel should just annex the whole of Judea and Samaria, make or offer to make all of the Palestinians who live there citizenship and deal with the consequences. Anyone who doesn't want to be a citizen could sell out and leave. In the end, once Israel is forced to deal with Iran, I cannot concieve of Israel's situation being anymore dangerous. If there is ever going to be a permanent end to the Israel / Palestine issue, in the end, it will be something closer to that (Israel within historic borders) than a Palestinian state in the midst of Israel on the west side of the Jordan River. (JMIO)
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