Say “no” to a Palestinian state
Opened on February 10, 2014
To Prime Minister NetanyahuWe the undersigned urge you to say “no” to a Palestinian state.
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Mark Langfan interviewed on the security threat
Mark Langfan interviewed on the security threat
An Alternative to any Petition to PM Netanyahu
By Prof. Paul Eidelberg
I cannot say I am encouraged by a petition addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that calls on the public to say No to a Palestinian state.
This is a rather curious display of Israeli Democracy in view of the fact that, on June 14, 2009, PM Netanyahu endorsed the creation of a Palestinian state without Knesset or public debate.
In fact, as have elsewhere shown, the public, by means of national elections and opinion polls, has clearly conveyed overwhelming opposition to a Palestinian state since the June 1992 elections when the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin opposed any negotiations with the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the PLO.
More recently, in the February 2003 elections, no less than 70 percent of the electorate voted against Labor’s policy of unilateral disengagement from Gaza.
However, just as Labor leader Rabin betrayed the nation by signing the Oslo or Israel-PLO Agreement of September 13, 1993, so Likud leader Ariel Sharon betrayed the nation when he nullified that 2003 election by adopting Labor’s anti-Jewish appeasement policy.
“Anti-Jewish” is precisely the term Ariel Sharon used in his Jerusalem Post article of March 31, 1995. In that article he said, among other recriminating statements: “This government is against everything that is Jewish….Anyone planning to hand over Beit El and Shiloh is against Jews and Judaism.”
Therefore, instead of addressing a petition to PM Netanyahu who betrayed the nation by endorsing a Palestinian state, it would be more sensible – even if futile – to distribute a million copies of Sharon’s Jerusalem Post article on the one hand, and call for Netanyahu’s resignation on the other.?