A guest post by AKUS
Whether it’s Jimmy Carter (“Apartheid”) or the Guardian and its devoted readers calling Israel an apartheid state, the concerted attempt to define Israel as a racist country is a continuing theme in the campaign to delegitimize Israel. I have long contended that the real racists are the Palestinians, who have refused to accept the idea that if they ever have a state on the West Bank that Jews will be able to live there, as Arabs do in Israel. Of course, we already know that Hamas will not allow Jews to live in Gaza, nor will Jordanians permit Jews in Jordan, the real Palestinian state.
In Congress on Tuesday, Netanyahu threw down the gauntlet:
The status of the settlements will be decided only in negotiations. But we must also be honest. So I’m saying today something that should be said publicly by all those who are serious about peace: In any real peace agreement, in any peace agreement that ends the conflict, some settlements will end up beyond Israel’s borders.
I wait to see the Arab response to this statement which clearly implies that Netanyahu expects the Palestinians to permit Jews to live on the West bank.
(By the way, this may generate shock waves among some of the Israeli settlers who have been able to live in a fool’s paradise for far too long as they contemplate either a withdrawal in exchange for an agreement, or a future under Arab rule).
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May 26, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Geary
Great post.
We just don’t have the vocabulary in the west to describe the combination of racial & religious prejudice and intolerance held close and practiced in the Arab-Muslim world.
May 27, 2011 at 1:27 am
Philip Horowitz
I wonder whether Netanyahu intended that meaning, he must be completely aware of the Palestinian attitude to Jews. Could he not just be saying that the settled areas will be given up, with the settlers moving to Israel (which he assumes will still include many settlements)?
May 27, 2011 at 3:05 am
Arabella Meller
Here’s a paragraph from an essay by Jordanian journalist Mudar Zahran, who says that it won’t happen anyway, which is what Netanyahu most likely intended because he knows it as well as we do. The Palestinians are prepared (VERY) to take as much as possible but to give nothing in return. Not swaps, not recognition and most certainly not peace.
“the Palestinian Authority’s doctrine is against Jewish presence itself, and not just areas Israel controls. As is clear in both the Palestinians and Hamas Charters, the problem is with Jewish existence on any land there, not just borders; therefore, any “swap” would be challenged by the PA regardless how small it was, or how much land would be “swapped” in exchange for those. To both Abbas’s Palestinian Authority and to the Hamas, all of Israel is a “settlement.” Moreover, in any negotiation, the price for a swap increases in proportion to what each side wishes to retain: what would be the “swap” for Jerusalem, Tel Aviv? Rest assured, no swaps will be able to be agreed upon.”
http://www.hudson-ny.org/2148/obama-peace-vision-israel-suicide