A bi-national state will only happen if the US forces Israel to accept it.

By Ted Belman

Marin Indyk gave a major speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in which he sought to bolster the demands of Susan Rice.

He issued a strong condemnation of Israel’s settlement activity in the West Bank on Thursday night, saying that:

“Rampant settlement activity – especially in the midst of negotiations – doesn’t just undermine Palestinian trust in the purpose of the negotiations; it can undermine Israel’s Jewish future,” he said. “If this continues, it could mortally wound the idea of Israel as a Jewish state – and that would be a tragedy of historic proportions.” It could “drive Israel into an irreversible binational reality.”

First of all Israel could do whatever it wants if it had US support and that includes annexation and resettlement of Arabs. So what he is saying by this remark is that the US will support nothing but a two state solution and if Israel wants to go it alone, the US will obstruct her and perhaps try to force a bi-national state on her.

Or put another way, the US will force Israel to make the necessary concession for a TSS failing which she will force a bi-national state on Israel. There is no way that Israel would do any of these things willingly.

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  2. @ yamit82:

    I thought you lived in Dimona, not El Paso!!!!! What’s Taba???? Listened to Jeff Gaul today first with Vince Gill and then with Eric Clapton. I am painting a picture of “Morning Singer” a Zuni katsima for a friend. Morning Singer walks though the pueblo and with a bell in his hand and wakes the people on ceremonial days. I have a large painting hanging in the house for Spring.

  3. @ yamit82:
    Hi Yamit,
    last Tuesday night, I had the pleasure of attending a dinner party with non other than Moshe Feiglin.
    I was impressed by his message, delivery, knowledge.
    He’s being polished and groomed. He was smartly dressed and was very personable. Had charisma!! He’s very bright and his English was good enough.
    Sounds like a future PM.
    We can only hope!!
    Shabbat shalom!

  4. @ honeybee:
    Where I live it’s fine AC during the day Heaters at night or T shirt during the day sweat shirts or training at night.

    Some rain , lots of wind lots of lightning the other day but Taba got flooded out and boy am I glad about that I wish it had taken the damn hotel with it.

    GO SPURS!!!! My favorite team and I love Popovitch

  5. @ yamit82:

    I see on the Times of Israel yawl are receiving some Texas size weather. Are you OK. Dallas got hit the other night, but that rather routine in the Spring. I had some hail but it passed without incident.

  6. @ yamit82:

    I don’t have the stomach for viewing/listening to the videos of Power… But look at the body language in the stills…

  7. Salomon Benzimra Said:

    Even if you slap Indyk in the face with ten hardcover copies of the Levy Report, he won’t understand the legality of the settlements and he will remain as dense and malevolent as ever.

    Indyk was always a “JewBoy” piece of shit

    Rehavam “Gandhi” Ze’evi 20 June 1926 – 17 October 2001) was an Israeli general, politician, and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party, mainly advocating population transfer.

    In September 1991, while serving as Minister without Portfolio, he called then US President George H. W. Bush an “anti-Semite.” In 1997, he called then US Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk a “Jewboy” and challenged him to a fistfight.

    In July 2005, the Knesset passed a law to commemorate Ze’evi’s memory.[30] Route 90 was renamed Gandhi Road in his honor. Eilat’s promenade was named for him and there is a life-size statue of him there as well. The communal settlement of Merhav Am and the West Bank settlement Ma’ale Rehav’am also bear his name.

    In 2005, he was voted the 7th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis

    He was assassinated by Hamdi Quran of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This was one of the few assassinations of an Israeli politician as part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    Ya’alon:

    Rehavam Ze’evi’s views were before their time


    “Gandhi had a clear strategic outlook, which was based on knowledge rather than ignorance and charlatanism; on a sober view rather than naïveté; on facts rather than wishes,” Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told the audience. “His positions were presented as extreme in order to invalidate them and it is possible that they were before their time. The awakening for most of us in recent years is proof of this.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Iyf62jY7k

  8. So what he is saying by this remark is that the US will support nothing but a two state solution and if Israel wants to go it alone, the US will obstruct her and perhaps try to force a bi-national state on her.

    Obama is already blocking and trying to pressure Israel into concessions by his media disinformation campaign which blood libels Israel with spying in an attempt to pressure US Jews by inciting anti semitism. He wants Israel to bow on Iran and the pals.

  9. Israel needs to build build build! Start with E1 and the Jordan Valley. Expand all the other settlements in Judah and Samaria. Apply Israeli law to all the settlements and surrounding areas.

    The USA & EU will burp and fart but in the end it will be fact!

  11. NormanF Said:

    it cannot even stand up to Russia.

    Obama & Kerry speak in a load [irritating] voice aand carry a toothpick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  12. The only way the US can get what it wants is through force. But America’s military power is rapidly shrinking and America is pulling out of large parts of the world. This Administration does not wield a stick and cannot coerce Israel into its preferred solution – it cannot even stand up to Russia.

  14. Israel should rub the faces of the Obama crowd in the ground by publicising more settlement-building. In other words, Israel should regard the highly incompetent Obama crowd the way the rest of the world is regarding them.

    It wouldn’t surprise me if the Obama crowd is gradually pushing for a military “incursion” into Israel, as they most likely regard Israel as a relatively soft target (unlike Syria). I know this sounds like a fundamentally stupid idea, but one of the best descriptions I have ever seen, of this administration, is:

    A mixture of incompetence and impenetrable narcisism.

    It’s the “impenetrable narcisism” part that leads me to believe that they would actually consider doing what I indicated above.

  15. Even if you slap Indyk in the face with ten hardcover copies of the Levy Report, he won’t understand the legality of the settlements and he will remain as dense and malevolent as ever.