Netanyahu, Mideast peace and a return to the Axis of Evil

[Violet_Crumble]

The prime minister's speech last night returned the Middle East to the days of George W. Bush's "axis of evil." Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a patriarchal, colonialist address in the best neoconservative tradition: The Arabs are the bad guys, or at best ungrateful terrorists; the Jews, of course, are the good guys, rational people who need to raise and care for their children. In the West Bank settlement of Itamar, they're even building a nursery school.

No empathy for the refugees from Jaffa who lost their entire world, not a word for the Muslim connection to Jerusalem  neither a fragment of a quote from the Koran, nor a line of Arabic poetry.

Netanyahu's provincial remarks were not intended to penetrate the hearts of the hundreds of millions of Al Jazeera viewers in the Muslim world. Instead, he sought to appease Tzipi Hotovely, the settler Likud lawmaker, and make it possible to live peaceably with the settler foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman. Netanyahu's demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people didn't even leave him an opening for forging reconciliation with the Arab citizens in the country.

The prime minister's declaration that Jerusalem will remain he "undivided capital" of Israel - only Israel - slammed the door before the entire Muslim world. And his Hebron is solely the city of the Jewish patriarchs; the Arabs have no such rights at all. The Palestinians can have a state, but only if those foreign invaders show us they know how to eat with a fork and knife. Actually, without a knife.

The demilitarization of the Palestinian state was mentioned in the Clinton guidelines, the Taba understandings and the Geneva accord, as was the right of return to Palestine, not Israel. The difference between these documents and the Bar-Ilan address is not only that the former recognized the Palestinians' full rights to the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The real difference lies in the tone - in the degrading and disrespectful nature of Netanyahu's remarks. That's not how one brings down a wall of enmity between two nations, that's not how trust is built.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093048.html

[timeforpeace]

1. He agreed to the two-state solution.

You left that out.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/14/AR2009061400741.html?hpid=topnews

[Violet_Crumble]

2. I didn't leave out anything since I didn't write the article...

But then again, the writer of the article didn't leave it out either as he refers to what Nutty said about a future Palestinian state....

[Chulanowa]

3. Sort of

He agreed so long as the Palestinians have zero military capabilities, zero control over their airspace, and no methods of smuggling in weapons.

A demilitarized Palestine could be one thing, if it were done like Japan and had the UN or some ally nation performing security for it. No airspace control is asinine. And there will never be a 100% guarantee regarding smuggling.

Nuttyahoo basically said he'll accept the two state solution, so long as the two states are "Israel" and "Israel's Bitch"

[Sezu]

5. gasp...no method of smuggling in weapons??????

my God the man's a MONSTER!!!!!!!!

[Chulanowa]

6. Don't recall calling him a monster

But that "goal" is basically a self-destruct button for the entire process. It's virtually impossible to achieve - If someone wants to smuggle, they'll find a way. That's a given, and it's true no matter where you are. And, if Israel's history of demands is any indication, anything less than absolute flawless perfection from the Palestinians results in bombs.

Basically, it's a way for Israel to go "oops, not good enough, no state for you." I hope Obama pisses in Netanyahu's face.

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[IndianaGreen]

4. No, Bibi restated the position that the Palestinians will NOT have sovereignty

Bibi wishes on the Palestinians something akin to an Indian Reservation in America.

One would think you have recognized the Zionist psycho-babble we have grown accustomed for the past 40 years.

Settlements will continue. Israel keeps the whole of Jerusalem. More of the same Zionist turd we heard from the assassins of Rabin.