What Olmert offered Abu Mazen
Last spring, Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post wrote an article in which he described an offer that Ehud Olmert made to 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Olmert is right to paint this offer as embodying the most extensive concessions, and the best deal, ever offered to the Palestinians by an Israeli leader. But his very experience with this offer raises several questions. Could he have delivered its terms if the Palestinians had accepted it? Perhaps international momentum would have enabled him to do so, and, in fact, Olmert's Kadima party did remarkably well in the election which followed his prime ministership. Could any Israeli government today realistically make such an offer? The answer would seem to be no.Olmert apparently still doesn't recognize it (or doesn't want to recognize it), but it should be clear to all of us that the 'Palestinians' have no intention of compromising nor of living in peace with Israel. Even if, as Olmert claims, Abu Mazen wants to reach a peace agreement and recognizes Israel as a Jewish state, he has neither the support nor the determination to make that happen. There isn't going to be peace in my lifetime or yours. The 'Palestinians' have suckled terror with their mothers' milk.
And most important, if the Palestinian leadership cannot accept that offer, can they accept any realistic offer? Do they have the machinery to run a state? Is their society too dysfunctional and filled with anti-Semitic propaganda to live in peace next to the Jewish state? Could they ever deliver on any security guarantees?
I put these questions to Olmert and his response to them is perhaps the most lukewarm part of our interview: "It's certainly a legitimate concern, since I never received a positive response from them. I think it's up to them (the Palestinians) to prove the point. I hope they will rise to this."
Olmert still believes the Palestinians should respond to the deal he offered them. If they did so, this would open the way to peace, but only if Palestinian society is reconciled to living in peace next to Israel as it really exists.
Read the whole thing.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:55 AM
4 Comments:
There is no peace movement on the Palestinian side. Palestinian public opinion does not support recognition of Israel as the Jewish State or a compromise peace with Israel. That's why negotiations are not going to resume within the next 10 months. No matter what kind of or how many concessions Israel offers, they will never be enough to induce the Palestinians to finally end the conflict with Israel. Their real goal now it as it been for decades is to bring about Israel's destruction and the people who seem unwilling to acknowledge the reality of the situation are the Jews.
It is as if Israel leadership is in this infinite loop of "If we just offer them a little more than the last offer, the world will be satisfied and will finally see who it is that really desires peace and they will like us." Someone once said that the definition of insanity is continuously doing the same things and expecting different results. My conclusion from this is that the world will not recognize who truly desires peace, they will not like Israel, they will merely conclude that Israel is insane - the same as it has been since its re-establishment.
Kae Gregory,
The quote is from Albert Einstein. I've used it on this site many times.
in any other normal country,this criminally insane traitorous self hating leftist coward,would be hanging by the end of a rope for high treason
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