By Ted Belman
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) on Saturday called on opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog to join the coalition, telling Channel 2 News in an interview, “At the end of the process there will be two states for two peoples here.”
Earlier he had said “The rumors and talk of a meaningful diplomatic process in our area have a much greater basis than some newspapers suggest. There is the possibility of a significant turnaround on the regional level,”
He also suggested that Lieberman and Netanyahu agree.
There is nothing to suggests that the Arabs are prepared for “painful concessions” so why go down that path except if it is to eat up time until Obama leaves office.
The possibility of Sherman’s humanitarian solution, (compensated Arab emigration), being implemented is low to nil so the next best alternative is Bennett’s plan of annexing Area C. Even with this plan, I don’t see international support or even US support so we would have to go it alone and do it unilaterally. Or perhaps, annex all the settlement blocs. Such an action would violate the Oslo accords necessitating the annexation of Area C.
This could be combined with the Jordanian option.
On Saturday Bennett said in an interview on Meet the Press:
“We will take down the government over anything that would lead to a division of the Land of Israel and the creation of a Palestinian state. We will fight it,”
“There will be no Palestinian state here. I will do anything to stop it,” “We are in a government whose basic principles include no Palestinian state. As long as we are here, there will not be a Palestinian state along Highway 6, five minutes from Kfar Saba, and there will be no division of Jerusalem.”
Didnt sharon give away gaza when the long arm of the law was getting closer. I expect that foreign intelligence services know a lot more, with evidence, about Israeli leaders…. such info can get folks to do odd things.
What all who talk about two solutions and negotiating fail to talk about is that the strongest Palestinian group is Hamas. Other terror groups like Islamic Jihad are their allies. None of them are willing to negotiate anything. I do not understand why the Israeli government does not mention this first and foremost every time someone brings up the flawed two state concept. Bibi has said occasional but not enough. He asks what happens the day after we withdraw.
If you make a deal and the IDF withdraws from PA areas and brings down the roadblocks and/or abandons land you have a replay of Gaza in short order and much worse because it close to the major Israeli population centers and the airport. Mortars, Rockets, and suicide bombers in short order. We would have war in short time and a lot of death and destruction.
I propose that Israel use a combination of Bennett’s plan with Sherman plan as a long term solution. I will post this below.
Will Bibi be eligible for the seventy-two virgins?