Posted on 02/04/2010 9:15:39 AM PST by bsaunders
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad spoke boldly while making numerous demands, most previously stated and one original demand that went further than any previous demand. He referenced frequently the recent new threat of unilaterally declaring a Palestinian State in all of the West Bank, Gaza, and much of Jerusalem including all of the Temple Mount and surrounding neighborhoods. He reiterated the demand that Israel pull all IDF forces and other security personnel completely from the West Bank and remove all settlements and neighborhoods existing east of the Green Line before any negotiations could be resumed. Prime Minister Fayyad further spoke of a desire for the two states living side by side in security and peace, a statement quite at odds with much of what he has articulated when speaking to the Palestinians in Arabic.
But rather than rehash the litany of demands that we are all too familiar with and have pretty much exhausted the patience of many world leaders, let us speak of the one new, bold, and threatening demand raised by Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad. He referred to the demand made by Prime Minister Netanyahu that Israel be recognized as a Jewish State. He offered to give such recognition under the proviso for Israel to return to the original mandate lines demarked by the 1948 United Nations original partition. Such a move would make Israel barely larger than Rhode Island with borders that would render Israel undefendable. Mr. Fayyad’s comment calling for such an insane move by Israel was meant as an honest requirement should Israel insist on being perceived as a Jewish State.
The recent shift towards the most impossible of demands as prerequisites for the resumption of some semblance of the peace process are a direct result of President Obama initially pushing demands from the United States onto Israel well beyond any previous administration. The fact that President Obama has retracted these outrageous demands has not changed the Palestinian leadership from grasping hold of them as the base prerequisites for resuming negotiations. In all honesty and in my opinion, it is time for a complete restart of the peace process. The way everything now stands, peace has been made impossible. The demand that Israel surrenders every single millimeter of land taken as a result of the Six Day War and have negotiations proceed from that point is untenable. With the return to the Green Line as the basis for restarting peace talks, the demand for Israel to return to the 1948 UN Partition Border along with granting Palestinians unlimited Right of Return are about the only other issues left except the true demand, dream even, the Palestinian leadership speaks of only in Arabic to their own people, the complete and total annihilation of Israel and its Jewish citizens. The peace process has steadily placed more and more demands upon Israel with every passing day since the initial Oslo Accords while no demands have been honestly enforced upon the Palestinians that are their responsibility towards making peace. To claim that peace can be attained from the current state of affairs without a general reset is disingenuous.
Beyond the Cusp
Israel needs to stop giving free electricity to these murderous clowns.
Remember when Amahdinejad said the other day that Iran would
“deliver a telling blow to the West on Feb 11”?
There’s been speculation that he may detonate an atom bomb test etc. but what I’ve been thinking, is that what he intends on that day, is to unilaterally recognize palestine as a state.
I believe Iran would then be the first nation to do this, and who knows where it would lead?
Should Iran unilaterally recognize a Palestinian State as the first step in a coordinated series of steps to establish such, as soon as they began shooting the Jews living in the West Bank a war would immediately ensue.
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