T. Belman. Dreamers or schemers all. To have a plan that will never be accepted by the PA is for one purpose and that is to present a Plan in the abstract that sounds good to some voters. The same goes for all other plans predicated on getting the PA to agree. Plans which call for unilateral withdrawal are not worth talking about. Practical plans that need no agreement with the PA and which reject any more withdrawals are the only game in town.
A former IDF general who is set to become a Knesset member with the centrist Kulanu party said on Monday night that Zionism “created” the Palestinians.
In an address in Jerusalem, Yoav Galant, who is number 2 on Kulanu’s Knesset list, outlined his terms for a peace agreement with the Palestinians, calling for the evacuation of settlements outside the major blocs, and increased construction within the blocs.
You will recall that that is what Oren stands for. In that article, Oren said:
““Annexing of Area C brings an immediate international embargo on the state of Israel, and I’ll tell you unequivocally, it will not be acceptable to both houses and both parties, so it’s also going to be a major problem for our relationship with the United States,””.
Echoing stances expressed by the leader of his party, former Likud minister Moshe Kahlon, Galant also rejected any Palestinian right of return, as well as any concessions on Jerusalem, and insisted that any future Palestinian state must be demilitarized.
“We must recognize what Zionism has recognized from day one, that with Zionist activity, we created the Palestinian nation sitting alongside us, and they are not going anywhere,” Galant said, according to the daily Maariv.
With regard to continued Israeli presence in areas with a large Palestinian population, namely the West Bank, Galant said: “It does not make sense that we reside in densely populated Palestinian areas. In my eyes, this is a mistake.”
The retired general, once a front-running candidate for IDF chief of staff, appealed for “territorial contiguity” for the Palestinians, which will “enable them to lead their lives under an independent entity, while our construction and settlements in the large settlement blocs continues.”
Galant recently came under fire for implying that an airstrike on the Syrian Golan Heights that was attributed to Israel — six Hezbollah members and six Iranians, including a general, were killed in the attack — was ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu out of political expediency rather than security concerns.
Hours after the attack, Galant appeared on Channel 2 and stated: “From incidents in the past you can learn that sometimes there is timing that is not unrelated to the topic of elections.”
He was subsequently overwhelmed with denouncements and critiques from politicians across the political spectrum, and later appeared to backpedal on his remarks.
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The Western DHIMMIS!
Il must decide what keeps her safe knowing not to count on others for her safety.
The IL leftists should learn once for all that IL CANNOT outsource her security to anyone. That must be the ONLY and primary consideration. They also need to know that no proposal is acceptable to Muslims short of disappearing from the map. The Palestinian people brains have been calcinated by too much unrelenting genocidal brainwashing.
The only counter-offer from the Muslim side has been the surrender of IL. Koolanu and IL are not aware of the appeal court of Versailles decision on the ownership of J & S!
@ Bear Klein:
See my comments on the Netanyahu speech to Congress. Its necessary for a friend to speak truth to power. While respect begins at home, its necessarily to cultivate it abroad as well. Though people may think (as with Iran’s nuclear ambitions) that it begins with the Jews, as history has reminded us all too often, it seldom ends with them.
@ NormanF:What is double dumb about the Koolanu plan is they do not either believe that their a Pali or Arab peace partner but just want to appease the naysayers of the Jewish State in the event of partner. For this they are willing to kick Jews out of their homes and relinquish rights in Judah & Samaria. Never the people they want to appease do not approve of Jews building in east Jerusalem or the settlement blocks they also want to keep.
So the appeasement does not even work. Want weak willed and illogical people. They are fooling themselves, that Israel can make the pressure go away.
@ NormanF:
100% on the mark!!
All Israeli peace plans suffer from the same flaw: they assume the Arabs are ready for a peace deal under the right circumstances.
They don’t exist and the notion of an Arab peace partner is sheer fantasy.
Basically their plan is to appease the EU & Obama. To do this these people are willing to kick Jews out of their homes. They do not believe we can get to an agreement with the Pals but they still are willing to kick Jews out of their homes. This is wrong, evil and stupid.
While the statement is true it also holds the key to ridding ourselves of this implacable enemy. By annexing all of the land and making this greater Israel more and more Jewish it will become loathsome to our pali-partners. They should be invited to join our nation by swearing allegiance to the Jewish state which most will find intolerable and will take instead the generous offer of the state to leave for greener pastures.