Posted on 12/07/2013 7:53:16 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Saturday that Israel had no partner for peace in the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Speaking at the Israel Business Conference in Tel Aviv, Ya’alon said that there will be not a peace partner so long as the PA continues to educate its children to hate Israel.
"As someone who supported the Oslo Accords, I have learned to understand that there is no partner for two states for two peoples on the other side,” he said.
“There isn’t, nor has there been since the dawn of Zionism, a leadership on the other side that is willing to recognize our right to exist as the national homeland of the Jewish people, and to recognize that a peace agreement would bring an end to the conflict and an end to the demands,” added the Defense Minister. “We will not talk about inches, about giving up one millimeter of land, if we do not realize we have a partner who speaks of recognition, of ending the conflict and relinquishing the right of return.”
According to Ya’alon, "There is a problem that is unsolvable, but all is not lost. It is possible to promote essential elements such as the economy, governance, law and order. When will I be convinced that we have a partner? Once they cease to teach their children to wear explosive belts and blow themselves up on Israelis, and once Israel will appear in their textbooks, and Tel Aviv, which is for them a ‘settlement’, appears on their maps.”
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Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon... said that there will be not a peace partner so long as the PA continues to educate its children to hate Israel... "There isn’t, nor has there been since the dawn of Zionism, a leadership on the other side that is willing to recognize our right to exist as the national homeland of the Jewish people, and to recognize that a peace agreement would bring an end to the conflict and an end to the demands... We will not talk about inches, about giving up one millimeter of land, if we do not realize we have a partner who speaks of recognition, of ending the conflict and relinquishing the right [sic] of return... When will I be convinced that we have a partner? Once they cease to teach their children to wear explosive belts and blow themselves up on Israelis, and once Israel will appear in their textbooks, and Tel Aviv, which is for them a 'settlement', appears on their maps."
Excellent quote, though not original.
Any Israeli or any supporter of Israel from abroad, assuming he or she has any common sense, would pretty much agree.
Surely the current Obama-Kerry "peace plan" will fail because it doesn't alter the Pali mindset. There is no Palestinian "peace partner" and there never has been one.
The statement is great, not because it’s original, but because a modern-day MK under the discipline of his party, and a sitting minister under the discipline of a wobbly PM, has said so publicly. It’s the obvious truth, which these days is the hardest thing for a politician to utter.
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