Posted on 01/24/2011 9:05:00 AM PST by Nachum
I don’t know whether the “Palestine Papers” published yesterday by Al Jazeera and the Guardian are real or, as Barry Rubin argues, a fake aimed at discrediting the Palestinian Authority’s current leadership. What is certainly false, however, is the claim, as Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland put it, that “Now we know. Israel had a peace partner.”
If the papers are true, then, as Noah pointed out, they show the PA agreeing to let Israel keep most — though not all — of the huge Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, which are home to hundreds of thousands of Israelis. The Guardian deems this concession shameful. Freedland terms it “unthinkable”; the paper’s editorial goes even further, accusing Palestinians of agreeing “to flog the family silver.”
Yet, as Rick noted, every peace plan of the past decade — starting with the Clinton Parameters in 2000, which virtually the entire world claims to view as the basis for any agreement — has proposed assigning the Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem to Israel. The Guardian is entitled to fantasize about a Palestinian state “created on 1967 borders, not around them,” but no serious mediator or negotiator ever has. Even UN Security Council Resolution 242, which everyone accepts as the basis for talks, was drafted so as to allow changes to the pre-1967 armistice lines.
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...Flipping Palestinians and the Arab world only want to have Israel cave in... with the sole intent to erode Israel to non existance. The palsestinians? Need to go to their brothers for land. Better yet.. . get it from Jordan!
The whole mideast will not be happy until the only democracy is gone and for them? It will be a victory that little satan is gone, then its time for the larger challenge...the Big Satan ...or merge with the Obama nation.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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What is certainly false, however, is the claim, as Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland put it, that "Now we know. Israel had a peace partner."
I saw we give them land just below the anwar dam, then blow it up.
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