Israel Matzav

Likud's young generation more thoughtful than the old one

I wish that Prime Minister Netanyahu would listen to out-of-the-box thinking like that of Likud's Young Generation's Eddie Yair Fraiman.

Israeli society has a duty to examine whether the moves made in the last two decades were correct, and through that reflection, to consider whether freezing the peace process is actually a negative turn of events, as the Israeli Left claims.

The Oslo Accords set a historical precedent. For the first time, the PLO received trappings of independence, such as self-regulating Palestinian police forces and full control over territory without a formal declaration of an independent state. In PA-controlled areas today, there are governmental institutions, judiciary and local enforcement. PLO leaders have international recognition, the organization has a representative in the United Nations, and only recently seven South American countries formally recognized the Palestinian state.

In fact, according to the terms of the 1933 Montevideo Treaty - a foundational document in international law - the PLO has de-facto political independence in area A's Palestinian controlled territory. Apparently, Palestinians-Arabs have already achieved most of their goals.

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Possible solutions to the Jewish-Arab conflict can be similar to political arrangements involving other national minorities in the world. Formulas of a federal Israel, with a Jewish majority in Israel, while providing minority rights of cultural and civic autonomy, such as the Scots in Britain or the Basques in Spain, is a possible solution to the conflict.

Likud leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Menachem Begin believed that the solution to the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Land of Israel lies in providing autonomy to the Palestinian-Arabs. This belief is as relevant today as it was then.

The US government has to understand that even if it beats the heads of Israeli and Palestinian-Arab leaders together, still there will remain core issues for which a real solution simply does not exist. Not in this generation anyway.

If the US continues to believe in and push for a "two states for two peoples” solution it will fail, just as so many other previous rounds of negotiations have failed. The question is who will be brave enough to suggest other solutions - real ones this time.

Read it all.

Here's betting Mr. Fraiman did not grow up in Israel. He demonstrates too much independent political thought.

Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Eddie Yair Fraiman, Israel is a Jewish state, Likud Young Generation, two-state solution

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:36 PM