By Ted Belman
INN reports on an interview with Saeb Erekat, the PA negotiator, after the meeting between Obama and Abbas,
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“I hope and pray that the Israeli government will make the choice: settlements or peace. They can’t have both”.
Erekat added that the possibility of continuing the talks past the April deadline did not come up in Abbas’s meetings with Obama or Secretary of State John Kerry.
“The negotiations are up on April 29,” he said, according to AP. “You don’t need negotiations any more. You need decisions.”
During the meeting between Obama and Abbas, the American president told the PA Chairman that both he and Israeli leaders must make tough political decisions and take “risks” for peace.
Israel should resist the idea that these negotiations are about achieving peace. Sure they are about peace but at an acceptable price. Peace at the cost of our rights is not worth it nor is it sustainable.
The PA is not interested in peace. They are interested in destroying Israel. To this end, they demand the “right of return” though it has no legal foundation and 100% withdrawal by Israel, from east of the greenline, though that too has no legal foundation. And they reject our necessary security demands and our demand for recognition as a Jewish state. For them, negotiations are all about achieving their demands and not about peace.
For Netanyahu,, negotiations are all about achieving an end of conflict agreement, at the least cost to Israel in terms of security and land. Israel is divided over the cost it is willing to pay for such agreement. Some Israelis are ready to accept ’67 lines plus swaps. Other Israelis are not willing to withdraw from any part of Judea and Samaria. Most Israelis fall somewhere in between.
The Palestinians are not prepared to settle for half a loaf or even 90% of the loaf. Anyone genuinely interested in peace would jump at the offer of peace and a state on 90% of the land. Not only do the Palestinians want 100% but they aren’t interested in peace. Peace for them has no currency.
Israelis should never loose site of the fact that Judea and Samaria is their land not Arab land. The only reason there is no peace is because the Palestinians are waging war. The only thing they have to give Israel is the cessation of the war they are waging. This is worth something to Israel but not near the price being demanded for it. Their demands amount to extortion.
And since even a pretense of that isn’t even on the table anymore, Israel suffers from some form of suicidal insanity to even entertain carving out our existential assets and our ancestral lands to further and abet our destruction. If Israel where a person, it would have long been committed to a psychiatric facility for its protection and that of others.
@ the phoenix:Thanks. I knew it was wrong when I typed it but forgot to correct it.
ONE ISSUE HOLDING UP PEACE. The Arabs including the Palestinians want to destroy Israel and take all of the land. That has always been the issue and the rest is window dressing and double talk.
The size of the state is not the issue. Israel had no control of Gaza and the West Bank from 1948 until 1967 yet the Palestinians did not form a state there. They in fact in the PLO charter of 1964 said these areas belonged to Jordan and Egypt respectively. Hamas says directly it wants to conquer Israel. Abbas wants a staged solution, first con Israel into giving up land and then swamp the rest of Israel with Palestinian immigrants.
This is why they will not agree to a Jewish State. They intend to destroy it as soon as they are able.
Israel needs to stand its ground and say no to people who do not recognize the above fact (including Israeli wishful thinkers).
His name is ‘Saeb’.
Saeeb Muhammad (what else?) Salih Erekat.
Let us not defile the name of our first king…
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They know Netanyahu is trained to collapse, surrender and betray and push for whatever they want. It is our fault to the hilt for allowing such garbage to lead. Totally our fault.
I see coming the “alternativahhh” question.
Here is the answer.
ANYONE with a pair of cojones, regardless if male or female. A principal is Jewish identification. UnJews must be severed from all positions of power and if needed, detained.
Free elections of a new system of government and totally new representatives, judges, military commanders, police staff, etc.