Posted on 07/08/2010 4:51:58 PM PDT by hecht
Netanyahu to divide Jerusalem? In an otherwise uneventful speech to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Wednesday night, Prime Minister Netanyahu came up with this (Hat Tip: Gershon D). But then, in an off-the-cuff remark to a question on Jerusalem from the audience, Benjamin Netanyahu dropped a hint that his government’s insistence on Israeli sovereignty over all of Jerusalem might not be ironclad.
“Everybody knows that there are Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem that under any peace plan will remain where they are,” Netanyahu said in response to the question read by the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Malcolm Hoenlein.
The implication of Netanyahu’s remark -- that other neighborhoods of Jerusalem may not remain “where they are,” becoming part of an eventual Palestinian state -- was the first hint that the Israeli leader may be flexible on the subject of Jerusalem. Until now, Netanyahu has insisted that Jerusalem is not up for negotiation.
While the prime minister surely did not intend the gathering under the aegis of the Presidents Conference to serve as his forum for opening up negotiations over Jerusalem, the impromptu remark before an audience of prominent New York Jews and a handful of elected officials cast a slim ray of light on what Netanyahu thinks might be the Israeli capital’s ultimate fate. Hmmm. (Yes, I believe he would do it, no I don't believe he could get his coalition to go along, and he cannot do it without a Knesset vote).
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Bibi screwed us before the last time at the Wye River accords. Nothing has changed. I warned all the Bibi lovers too. He is making a deal. Maybe already did.
No way, not going to happen
i think maybe a deal was brokered by nobama that if they attack iran and us supports he would split the holy city. just a thought
"Everybody knows that there are Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem that under any peace plan will remain where they are," Netanyahu said in response to the question read by the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Malcolm Hoenlein. The implication of Netanyahu's remark -- that other neighborhoods of Jerusalem may not remain "where they are," becoming part of an eventual Palestinian state -- was the first hint that the Israeli leader may be flexible on the subject of Jerusalem. Until now, Netanyahu has insisted that Jerusalem is not up for negotiation.IMHO No, IOW, there won't be any ethnic cleansing as there was in the Sinai and in Gaza, and for that matter, as Jordan carried out in Jerusalem in 1948 -- the Arab action that created this problem in the first place. Thanks hecht.
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