Bibi referred to J&S as “our hmeland”. I think that is significant. I.e. this means he is positioning himself to claim it as ours, not theirs. T. Belman
Netanyahu: Israel willing to ‘cede parts of our homeland for true peace’
Netanyahu said he would be willing to withdraw to the West Bank settlement blocs and leave only an Israeli military presence in the Jordan Valley if an agreement is reached for a demilitarized Palestinian state.
Yesha Council chairman Danny Dayan, responding to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech of Monday night, said Tuesday, “His analysis of the geo-political situation was correct, but his conclusions were wrong… Settlement blocs alone do not provide even minimum security for the State of Israel.”
Dayan, who heads the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria, told Arutz Sheva, “The Prime Minister was correct in saying that the struggle is not over borders, but over their desire to destroy us… However, when he spoke about his willingness to make ‘painful concessions over parts of our national homeland,’ there is no such animal. A homeland must be settled, and not given up on.”
“It is clear,” Dayan said, “that settlement blocs alone are not enough [even from a security standpoint]. For security, we require control over the mountain ridge [in the Shomron], the entire Jordan Valley, and the areas that oversee Ben Gurion International Airport.”
Dayan says that this coming September, when the PA is expected to make a bid for independence in the United Nations, “will be an opportunity for us, and not a crisis. They have overturned the table by going to the UN and forging an alliance with Hamas; we can no longer suffice with a ‘tied game.’ We have to win.”
How? “First of all,” Dayan explained, “we must remove the millstone of our consent to a Palestinian state, and then we must apply our sovereignty over the Jewish communities and the unpopulated areas – as preparation for our annexation of all of Judea and Samaria.”
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
They are lying about the number of Jews who may be potentially expelled.
It is three hundred and fifty thousand in Judea and Samaria (including the so called “blocs”), and three hundred thousand in so called East Jerusalem.
650,000 Jews living on so called “disputed” territories, not 120,000 that they are saying might be affected, out of which 2/3 are probably children, and 1/2 of the remainder are women.
Aliyah has virtually stopped (at least in appreciable numbers).
No Shy Guy! Not an emotional outburst, but just a question. Even if you are right that Netanyahu does think he might offer the Palestinians his committment to force 130,000 Jews out of their homes in J & S, I cannot imagine just how he could ever accomplish that.
It is for that reason that I took Yaakov Katz’s opinion as rather hysterical hyperbole that does nothing in terms of presenting a reasoned, feasible and practical piece of advice on the situation, let alone a solution.
Bill, you’ve just had your own outburst of emotion, not being able to believe that Netanyahu will actually go through with it.
I remember the same initial feelings about Sharon’s plans for Gush Katif.
We here in Israel get to hear everything Netanyahu and Barak say, word for word, in the original Hebrew. Netanyahu is as dangerous to Israel as many of us have been warning all along. Caroline Glick and Dore Gold were just wishful thinkers all these years.
At this point, as far as I’m concerned, may Netanyahu be struck to a crisp by a bolt of lightning out of the blue. We need to be saved from ourselves.
Shy Guy, this article is an outburst of emotion and anger, but not reason.
The opening line is:
As we saw with the Gaza disengagement, Israel has still not managed to restore the 8,000 evicted Gazan Jews to the full lives they before led living in Gaza.
Whatever Netanyahu has planned for these 130,000 Jews in Judea and Samaria, this fact regarding the Gazan Jews, cannot possibly be lost on him.
Enemy of the State
Netanyahu and past Israeli leaders have increasingly foresaken the fundamental principles of Negotiations 101 as the U.S., the Quartet and world opinion pressure Israel to abandon those principles altogether when it comes to Israel’s dealings with the Arabs/Palestinians.
I presume the vast majority, if not all Israpundit contributors are familiar enough with those principles, so I won’t bother to enumerate them.
BB is a liar. He is unworthy of leading Israel. He is UNWORTHY.
Bibi also dissapointed in anotgher way. As he did at Bar Ilan, he referred to our “historic rights” and left out our legal rights.
Bibi’s infamous Orwellian doublespeak/polispeak is nothing to hang hopes on. he is clearly mentioning his willingness to give up more of our homeland for worthless “peace/piece” non-agreements. Just like the Gush Katif expulsion that never brought peace & never could. There are reports circling that US pres will push for ’67 borders & splitting Ir Hakodesh Yerushalayim. Bibi is wimpy enough to say “Yaza boss”.