Netanyahu is offering autonomy only

Israpundit ^ | Oct 17/10 | Ted Belman

[tedbel]

No doubt PM Netanyahu would have rather spent the last 18 months in hell than to have spent it participating in the peace process under brutal pressure by the Obama administration. Come to think of it, it must have been hell.

Keep in mind that Netanyahu was voted into office on a platform which denied the two-state solution. The Obama administration succeeded in forcing a dramatic change in that policy. Or did it? On June 14/09 Netanyahu delivered a speech at Bar Ilan University in which he appeared to accept a two state solution with these words,

“In my vision of peace, two peoples live freely, side-by-side, in amity and mutual respect. Each will have its own flag, its own national anthem, its own government.”

Although the world spun it as an acceptance, of a Palestinian state, I submit that the same words would apply to an autonomous entity. Notice that the all important word “state” was not employed.

Then he placed the blame for sixty years of war where it rightly belonged,

“And the simple truth is that the root of the conflict was, and remains, the refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own, in their historic homeland.”

And he knew what to expect.

“The closer we get to an agreement with them, the further they retreat and raise demands that are inconsistent with a true desire to end the conflict.”

[chilltherats]

Bebe Net is a man I admire almost as much as I do President Reagan.

[Deagle]

I see no problem if the Palestinians and all surrounding states accept Israel as a State and stop the terrorist activities. When that happens, let me know...until then, I stand with Israel!

[NurdlyPeon]

Or maybe he's just blowing smoke and biding his time waiting for President Palin.

[SunkenCiv]

No doubt PM Netanyahu would have rather spent the last 18 months in hell than to have spent it participating in the peace process under brutal pressure by the Obama administration. Come to think of it, it must have been hell.

Thanks tedbel.

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[Eleutheria5]

What? There was no new statement? This is just re-spinning of his old Bar Ilan speech. Where’s the news?