Israelis to Bibi: No new initiatives
Yisrael Medad reports that the latest '
peace index' indicates that most Israelis don't want to see any new initiatives from Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Should Israel take an initiative or remain passive? Only a minority of the Jewish public (28%) agrees with the position that the Middle Eastern upheavals will create new opportunities and, hence, that Israel should make a new effort to reach a regional peace. The overwhelming majority (70%) accepts the position that the situation at the moment is unclear, and therefore it is better for Israel to remain passive and not do anything. The distribution of views among Israeli Arabs is the opposite, although not a polar opposite: while 58% of Israeli Arabs think Israel should take a peace initiative, a large minority (40%) says Israel should watch the developments in the Arab countries from the sidelines and not do anything.
If Ehud Barak's '
diplomatic tsunami' is coming, most Israelis don't believe it yet. Netanyahu should listen to 70% of the voters and not to Barack Obama.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Israeli peace initiative, Peace Index
Only in Israel....
We have to be the only country in the World where the international media is more interested in '
peace initiatives' backed by private citizens with no support than they are in what the Israeli government puts out.
Called the Israeli Peace Initiative, the two-page document is partly inspired by the changes under way regionally and is billed as a direct response to the Arab Peace Initiative issued by the Arab League in 2002 and again in 2007. It calls for a Palestinian state on nearly all the West Bank and Gaza with a capital in much of East Jerusalem, an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, and a set of regional security mechanisms and economic cooperation projects.
“We looked around at what was happening in neighboring countries and we said to ourselves, ‘It is about time that the Israeli public raised its voice as well,’ ” said Danny Yatom, a signer of the document and former head of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. “We feel this initiative can bring along many members of the public.”
Another member of the group, Yaakov Perry, a former head of Shin Bet, the internal security agency, said he sent a copy of the document on Sunday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who replied that he looked forward to reading it. The official unveiling is set for Wednesday in Tel Aviv, but a copy was made available to The New York Times.
We really do need a
Logan Act here.
Labels: Israeli peace initiative, Logan Act
Yisrael Medad reports that the latest 'peace index' indicates that most Israelis don't want to see any new initiatives from Prime Minister Netanyahu. 
