The Geneva Accords are being elevated to government policy

Israpundit ^ | Ted Belman

[tedbel]

The "peace process" is like an enormous ship traveling with great momentum to a predetermined destination. Nothing Israel can do will stop it or alter its course. While Israel continues to debate the details, the ship continues, inexorably.

Eight months after the US invasion of Iraq and the announcement of the Roadmap, Yossi Beilin, the Oslo architect, and Abed Rabbo, launched their peace proposal after two and one-half years of work. It was to be known as the Geneva Accords. It was sub-titled Draft Permanent Status Agreement

Haaretz reported

The plan, dubbed the Geneva Accord in tribute to the funding and support supplied by the Swiss Foreign Ministry, offers itself as a decisive solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the plan drawn up by former U.S. president Bill Clinton after the breakdown in the July 2000 talks between former prime minister Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat.

Fifty-eight former presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers and other global leaders, among them former presidents Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union and F.W. de Klerk of South Africa, issued a statement expressing "strong support" for the plan. Other world leaders who voiced their backing included King Hassan III of Morocco, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Clinton.

Bush reacted by saying it "is productive, so long as they adhere to the principles [to] fight off terror, that there must be security, and there must be the emergence of a Palestinian state that is democratic and free." In other words, he stuck with the Roadmap. Others like Jimmy Carter, Colin Powel, Kofi Annan and the EU jumped right in.

Ministers, right-wing MKs lambaste colleagues for attending Geneva ceremony

[wastedyears]

No more world government.

US out of the UN, UN out of the US.

[YOUGOTIT]

There can NEVER be peace unless the enemy is defeated and most of them killed. What some do not understand is that the present enemy thinks negotiation is surrender and will slice your head off after you sit down to talk.

[Publius6961]

Confirming that this Agreement is concluded within the framework of the Middle East peace process initiated in Madrid in October 1991, the Declaration of Principles of September 13, 1993, the subsequent agreements including the Interim Agreement of September 1995, the Wye River Memorandum of October 1998 and the Sharm El-Sheikh Memorandum of September 4, 1999, and the permanent status negotiations including the Camp David Summit of July 2000, the Clinton Ideas of December 2000, and the Taba Negotiations of January 2001;

Reiterating their commitment to United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242, 338 and 1397 and confirming their understanding that this Agreement is based on, will lead to, and - by its fulfillment - will constitute the full implementation of these resolutions and to the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in all its aspects;

The inclusion of all this BULLSHIT creates the fog that hides what each side should clearly understand, and tells me all I need to know about both the negotiators and the parties to the agreement. It is designed to fail.

The muslims are classically famous for claiming that continuing murder, mayhem and destruction is the work of misguided individuals, and that the "government" is helpless to prevent them.
This is certain to happen again, and nothing, really, will have changed.
Meanwhile, Israel will be expected to comply with all civilized expectations from a country, whether provoked or not.

Additionally, if there is not a clear and unambiguous understanding that Jews will be allowed to live with full citizenship rights, all of them, indistinguishable from muslims, the agreement is worthless; unless, of course, Israel is allowed to implement restrictions and limitations of Arab Israeli citizenship.

Compromise and blind faith is not an option.

[Convert from ECUSA]

"The "peace process" is like an enormous ship traveling with great momentum to a predetermined destination. Nothing Israel can do will stop it or alter its course. While Israel continues to debate the details, the ship continues, inexorably."

Hmmmm. Someone a lot bigger than these yahoos can most certainly stop it and alter its course in a very sudden and big way. These pompous blowhards are in for a very sudden and rude awakening.

[SunkenCiv]

Well put, YouGotIt and Publius6961. Thanks C from E for the ping. Another problem is, the UN charter — thanks to Stalin and Molotov — recognizes “resistance movements”, which are and always have been alibis for mass murder and other crimes intended to overthrow democracies and impose single party states. And of course, it’s obvious that repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results “this time” are diagnostic of mental illness.