I hope he'll never give up much more than that
JPost headlines that Prime Minister Netanyahu says he will 'never give up the Western Wall.' I hope he'll never give up a lot more than that. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is under no obligation to honor any of the commitments that former prime minister Ehud Olmert made to the Palestinians, Netanyahu’s associates said on Saturday night, reiterating statements Netanyahu made throughout his campaign for the premiership a year and a half ago.Olmert belongs in jail on corruption charges. And the sooner we get him there the better.
Olmert wrote an opinion piece for Friday’s Jerusalem Post in which he called on Netanyahu to offer the Palestinians what he did, which he first revealed to the public in a June 2009 interview with Newsweek’s Kevin Peraino.
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“Olmert said all along that the terms of his negotiations were that there would be no deal on anything until there was a deal on everything, so not only would Netanyahu not have to accept anything Olmert offered, but even Olmert wouldn’t,” a Netanyahu associate said.
“What Olmert told the Post has no impact on us.”
MKs close to Netanyahu went further and specifically ruled out Netanyahu accepting a single Palestinian refugee or giving the Palestinians or any foreign entity control over Jerusalem’s Holy Basin, singling out the Temple Mount and Western Wall.
When asked whether they thought they could make peace without paying the price that Olmert was willing to pay, Netanyahu’s confidants would only say that this was what the current negotiations were intended to determine.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:29 PM
4 Comments:
Give up?!
We need to conquer back.
Netanyahu is no better than his predecessors. Hashem yerachem aleinu.
I agree with Shy Guy.
The Palestinians have no right to demand anything of Israel.
They are lucky to get something in talks and only IF they give something in exchange.
If they don't like it, they're free to walk out but in that case they should be made to understand they will receive nothing. And they should.
Israelis are tired of paying extortionists and the Palestinians have to decide if they want peace or Israel's surrender. They are not going to get both.
Its high time things changed and Israel stopped the cheap whore of the Middle East souk.
Although it is indeed frightening to see how former "right-wing Likudnik" Olmert and his Kadima gang are now willing to give up the Kotel after people like Beilin and the "peace process" mafia were promising that at least the Kotel and Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem would remain in Israeli hands, it is important that he revealed this information. This makes it clear that the Palestinians will never agree to ANY Israeli control over any Jewish holy places over the Green Line. The Palestinians will NEVER agree to any sort of "reasonable compromise" with Israel.
Weak!
I don't like the wording of this. He needs to stop with the word play and come out and state emphatically we will never give up another inch of Israel and that includes east, west, north, south, southwest, northeast southern most , northern most -- any of Jerusalem!
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