Minister Kahlon calls for annexing entire Judea and Samaria if 'Palestinians' unilaterally declare 'state'
Welfare and Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon has the right idea.Welfare and Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon (Likud) at 28 April 2011 meeting of the Likud's young adult forum as reported on Israel Television Channel 2: "If they take steps, we will take steps -- I think that we need to immediately annex all of the territories on that same day. You declared statehood? No problem, We will also declare -- as children say: "you started it!""Let's go to the videotape.
Heh.
Labels: Likud Young Generation, Moshe Kahlon, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, unilateral declaration of statehood
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:43 PM
7 Comments:
The mistake is the assumed prerequisite of an "if".
Its not at all clear if he speaks for Netanyahu but I don't doubt he speaks for the vast majority of the Likud and the Prime Minister can't exactly ignore them.
Yes, but then what do you do to all the Arabs living there? Do you give them citizenship and voting rights? Of course not. Then the "international community" would REALLY bitch and moan and have a much stronger case to support its apartheid libel.
Jordan, they can all go to Jordan.
Nice to hear that backbone... that's what's happening in the U.S. also. We older people are dithering, if not destroying. The young are filling up the U.S. military and doing a great job, with no draft. They are fabulous. What does he mean about a widower?
@Jordan, three "states" under a federal govt. That's what I'm clamoring for.
Shy Guy, I know that's the ideal solution to the problem, but unless the Jordanian regime is overthrown and replaced with a palestinian one, that's a tough scenario to realize.
As a Zionistic compromise, I say in response to a unilateral declaration Israel annexes all the settlements in Judea and Samaria, and the entirety of the Jordan Valley. Leave the Arab areas to the Arabs and let them try to complain about that swiss cheese state after they so blatantly violated Oslo. Oh and as a bonus, for every terror attack each settlement gets to expand 1 km in every direction. This solution ought to satisfy everyone, no?
No, they are not going to Jordan short of a war directly fought on top of their heads to push them there.
That is not in the cards.
The PA-Hamas gambit plays out in the theater that is the diplomatic mis-en-scene of the ruling classes and elites, including Israel's. Inertia dulls responses against the Palestinian salami tactics of unilateral statehood (w/out recognition of or agreement with israel)--Israeli managers are comfortable with incremental steps that while substantial, are part of the play, the conventional theater (like cutting off payments).
Real confrontation, say annexation, is a lot more difficult for the present crowd in power. It isn't their style, it isn't their ideology, it isn't in their comfort zone. Israel still hasn't made the decision to prevent more Palestinian police from getting US Dayton training even as their role as a brake against Hamas would appear to be doomed under the new Fatahamistan condominium.
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