T. Belman. I agree with Caroline. Managing the conflict is a defensive action and results in Israel’s deligitimation and defamation. We must go on offense and extend Israeli law to either Area C or all of J&S. I remain opposed to giving citizenship to qualified Arabs. That’s why I favour just extending Israeli law to Area C. We should negotiate autonomy over A and B while at the same time induce voluntary emigration. We can always extend it to Area A and B later.
Journalist and writer Caroline Glick says Israel should respond to America’s new policy by applying sovereignty to Judea and Samaria.
By Yoni Kempinski and Elad Benari, INN
Journalist and writer Caroline Glick, author of the book “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East”, says Israel should annex Judea and Samaria now, in response to President Barack Obama’s statements that the United States will “re-evaluate” its support for Israel at the United Nations.
Seeing as Obama is planning to change American policy and “force Israel into completely indefensible borders”, Glick told Arutz Sheva, “the time has come for Israel to come out with an alternative policy, and the alternative policy that we have to put out is applying Israeli law and sovereignty to Judea and Samaria”.
“The question couldn’t be more urgent,” said Glick, whose book deals with this very issue and of which a Hebrew edition was recently published.
“The government has got to put forward a new policy regarding the Palestinians,” she continued. “The two states failed, we all know it, [and] we can’t resurrect it because it wasn’t we that made it fail.”
“The world doesn’t like us now,” Glick pointed out when asked about the world’s reaction if Israel does indeed annex Judea and Samaria. “We’re in a situation now where all the things they said will happen to us if we do X, Y, or Z are happening to us now when we’re saying, ‘No, no, no, we’ll support the establishment of a Palestinian state in Israel’s heartland.”
Israel is facing a “mass of hostility from the Western world”, she said and, as such, “we have to put forward something that we can stand behind and push forward in the face of this hostility.”
@ mookergee:
However there is ONE BIG diff: the World cares less how many wars take place between Muslims but care TOO much about what Israel does and too many are willing to criticize, demonize and undermine Israel. Nevertheless the more indecision from BB the greater the risk that the UN will try to abrogate past resolutions and decisions recognizing Israel legal rights on J & S and replace them with some form of imposed DIKTAT undermining the legal rights and existence of IL.
The Muslim world has CONSISTENTLY and SYSTEMATICALLY rejected all the gestures and offers from IL, from Ben Gurion to BB. Enough is enough, but Israel will have to act otherwise the world will make Israel position more difficult. Procrastination is not a solution because an “Abscess can eventually burst” and no one can predict the consequences.
Glick is 1000% right,the time is now to Annex Judea and Samaria.As of yesterday,There were 17 civil wars burning in muslim countries around the world.For once in a long time ISIS,Iran,Kenya, Nigeria etc etc are on the front pages.Israel is back to page 3 for now.Time is now to Annex and send the Palestinians that are not happy one way bus tickets to Jordan.
Next year in [all of] Jerusalem!! 🙂
Pardon me Bear Klein. You are probably in the middle of a seder. Catch up later. I find I have to balance myself. When I get too involved with Israel my biological clock clicks in and I am awake during the nite but I can’t sleep in the day – have a busy household.
Next year Jerusalem!! 🙂
@ Bear Klein:
It’s going to be difficult if Bennett doesn’t have a voice. Netanyahu is snubbing him. He probably doesn’t want Bennett to upstage him again. That’s my take on it. What’s yours?
@ Felix Quigley:
I disagree with the attacks — sometimes all but incoherent — that are loaded onto you almost every time you comment on Israpundit.
Like you, I thought it required great courage on the part of Netanyahu to defy Obama, fulfill the invitation offered him by the Republican Party leaderships of both houses of the Congress of the United States to appear before them in joint session and tell the truth as he analyzed it, regarding the negotiations with the leadership of ayatollist Iran for purposes of restraining them from developing and deploying nuclear weapons. It appears now, more than ever, that Obama and Kerry are headed for a sellout on these issues to those crazed leaders who even now threaten to destroy Israel.
And as election time approached on March 17, 2015, it took yet more courage on the part of Netanyahu to fight back against the campaign financed by Obama’s White House and operating surreptitiously in Israel for the sole purpose of defeating Netanyahu’s efforts to win re-election as prime minister of Israel.
Now, more than ever, is time for the Jews of Israel — and as many as possible by Jews and others friendly to Israel but living in other countries — to join together and lock arms in support of the new government. Because without unity, there not only is no strength, but only a pending destruction of the State of Israel and the hopes of the Jewish nation probably shattered forever.
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Felix, you know perfectly well that I am no communist. But now that I think I know a lot more about you and what I think are your ideas from the 4th International, I cannot help but find sympathy for the magnificent fight put up by Lenin and Trotsky in organizing the Red Army that beat the White Guard forces and their foreign backers in the 1917-1921 Russian civil war; exactly as I cannot help but find sympathy for the vast and brave Soviet armies of Stalin which saved Russia after the German Nazi invasion in 1941, and fought all the way back to the streets of Berlin four years later. The historians I read extensively — and none other than General Dwight D Eisenhower writing three years after that victory — knew for a fact that the allied forces never could have gotten ashore on the Calvados coast of Normandy except that the Soviet armies were tying down some three-quarters of Hitler’s armed forces.
There was a brave woman, of whose life you must have known, Dolores Iburrari, a Spaniard who died in her home country, after a long exile mostly in Russia, a few years after the death of Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator. She was a hero to the Russians of that era, whose own son Ruben Iburrari, who served as a volunteer officer in the Soviet armies, and who was killed in combat during the battle of Stalingrad — which was perhaps the greatest and most ferocious battle in the history of the world.
Some days before her death, she wrote the following, which are words I think worthy of remembering:
“I shall die on my feet here on this sixth floor of Santisima Trinidad Street [her private office at PCE headquarters], watching the stars. It will be night. Silence will break out for a few moments. That arresting silence of the universe. I know that the stars when I vanish will remain pegged way up there, fixed, immutable, gazing on the absurd hustle and bustle of men, small and ridiculous, striving with each other during the sole second of life allotted them to learn and to know about themselves, wasting it stupidly, killing one another, the ones fighting to avert exploitation by the others.”
I find myself hoping the Jewish nation will bring to life millions of such women and men.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
@ Felix:
It is difficult to imagine any leader who could have maxed-out when dealing with BHO as has BB, on each of the “fronts” you articulated; that he defied BHO when providing his “State of the World” Address is proof-positive of his unique position in history.
Felix Quigley Said:
Blah Blah Commie!!! Always Blah Blah never right always wrong but then you support and follow that dead idiot who got ice picked in the brain; a just reward for that SOB Jew hater and mass murderer. Do you want me to list his crimes/ Do you want me to list the crimes of every mass murder you have supported on this blog.
BB was not courageous he was opportunistic and he probably took his marching orders from those who control him and finance him in America… 6 and a half years of BB caving to the Black Plague, creating instability at home in the building sector driving young couples to leave Israel and causing housing to rise due to excess demand over supply is 100% due to BB. Supporting the rich and screwing your beloved workers is a hallmark of BB’s 10 years in office of PM and minister of finance. Allowing terrorists in the north and south to amass tens of thousands of missiles against us is all BB. Allowing Hams to build tunnels threatening Israel is all BB’s doing and allowing Hamas to survive reconstitute their losses and threaten again is all BB. What about all those soldiers who died and were wounded in BB;s reluctant entrance into Gaza. Again all BB etc. etc…
He was courageous? Hardly and he saved Israel??? No he has weakened-us and endangered us in every category.
untrue
Only actions count.
He’s rising in the polls.
With all due respect, if you think Cruz has a chance to gain the WH, I’m not too sure your opinions are ones I’ll be paying attention to.
Israel needs to nuke the Euronazi scum before she annexes this territory.
“to make a move like that you need a different type of leader” in D.C., not in Jerusalem; BB has handled BHO deftly for more than a half-decade, and one hopes he’ll have a GOP-Pal with whom to work during the latter half of this PM-term.
@ Felix Quigley:
Not bashing Netanyahu at all, just looking at the facts. He has ALWAYS known what to say, and how to say it. He is very easy to cheer when he says the things we (here) all want to hear.
The problem is he almost never follows through with the corresponding actions. An easy example is building (for Jews) in ALL of Jerusalem, or in Judea and Samaria, whch has per ususal come to an almost complete stop. And why? To placate the bastard in the White House?
Bibi has never internalized the fact that it doesn’t make any difference what we do, how many concessions we make……the world will always blame us.
So no, not bashing Bibi, just stating the obvious……declaring soverignty over all or part of J and S sounds great, but to make a move like that you need a different type of leader. I still remember the party we had on the Golan when Begin did just that in 1981.
Bibi ain’t Begin (and yes, I remember his faults and mistakes as well…..I fought and lost friends in his biggest one).
It would be preferable to await the inauguration of POTUS-Cruz on 1/20/2017 before making this move; otherwise, it could harden BHO’s intransigence and foment an immediate UN/ICC-level crisis.
Once again you are bashing Netanyahu. Yet it was the courageous struggle of Netanyahu in Congress on March 8 that saved the state of Israel. So why are you immediately bashing Netanyahu?
You like so many I meet are an opportunist ready to jump on the anti-Netanyahu bandwagon because I do not see any acknowledgement of the valiant deed that Netanyahju did on March 8. So I say you are opportunist like so many on these sites.
Great idea.
Now who here thinks Bibi has the baetsim to even contemplate such a move?
Lot’s of good ideas out there, with the only problem being we need real leaders in order to implement them, and they are nowhere to be found.
As I have always said, with the right leader we could stop worrying about who’s in the WH.
Our biggest problem, by far, is our lack of leadership, and unfortunately the horizon doesn’t fill me with hope.
Have a safe and kosher Pesach.