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Sunday, January 05, 2014

'New border' to pass 'near Highway 6'?

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Sunday that Israel's 'new border' under a 'peace agreement' with the 'Palestinians' will pass 'near Highway 6' (the blue line in the map above). As you can see, that would be well west of Jerusalem. Huh?
Liberman began by thanking United States Secretary of State John Kerry for his efforts to push a deal. “I want to express genuine appreciation for Kerry’s efforts, and for his stance regarding security in particular,” he said.
“Any alternative proposal that Israel gets from the international community will be worse than what Kerry offered,” he argued.
Israel-PA talks are important even in the absence of mutual trust, the Foreign Minister said. However, he said, “without an exchange of land and population, I cannot support a peace deal.”
He clarified his idea, “Unlike in the Disengagement, in the case of land exchanges, nobody will be uprooted. The border will just move toward around what is now Highway 6.”
Highway 6 runs from southern to northern Israel, passing well to the west of Jerusalem.
Liberman was apparently referring to his stated plan to give over the majority Arab “triangle” region in the Galilee to the PA. Israeli Arab leaders have roundly rejected the proposal.
I wonder why the 'Israeli Arabs' don't want to live in 'Palestine.' /sarc

What could go wrong?

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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:55 PM

1 Comments:

At 2:46 PM, Blogger NormanF said...

It will never happen for two reasons:

a)Israel can never give up Jerusalem.

b)The Palestinian Arabs will reject any proposal to keep Israel Jewish.

It doesn't matter where the border is drawn. As long as the other side rejects in principle the very existence of a Jewish State, there will never be peace.

Avigdor Lieberman knows this and so does every one else in Israel. You have a side that does not want peace and for whom the pretend peace talks are meant to weaken Israel not to live in peace alongside it.

All the talk in the world of a purported "peace agreement" border flies in the face of reality. We are not going to see the Palestinian Arabs change who they are to the point peace is even a realistic prospect.

That is not going to happen in our lifetime.

 

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