Posted on 04/02/2015 4:39:08 AM PDT by tedbel
Dennis Ross and David Makovsky in Israel’s Drive Toward Self-Destruction, argue that Netanyahu must offer up hope to Palestinians or face a revived de-legitimization movement. They’re certainly right to point out that the delegitimation movement will grow, but they are wrong to suggest that the answer is for Israel to offer hope to the Palestinians. How facile is that? They argue that what Israel needs to do is begin capitulating even before the negotiations commence, let alone, conclude. They want Israel to give up its bargaining chips for nothing in return.
The Palestinians don’t hope to be given a state, they hope to destroy a state, namely Israel.
It’s not Israel that needs to prove its bona fides, it’s the Palestinians that need to.
The problem with the Ross/Makovsky recommendations is that they are put forward to achieve a pre-ordained (at least by the international community) solution, namely two states for two people based on the '67 lines plus swaps, a divided Jerusalem and "just solution" for the Palestinian refugees, of which there are few (60,000), and their descendants. Whatever happened to all matters must be negotiated? Also, the law doesn’t require them to go back to the ’67 lines but Obama does.
And the recommendations ignores the many threats to Israel along its borders. Ross and Makovsky assume that these threats will eventually evaporate but offer no arguments why this will be so. Yet they want Israel to put herself in jeopardy by offering “hope”. The greatest of these threats, Iran, is now becoming greater due to the deal being negotiated by the Obama administration that will, in Netanyahu’s words, pave the way to them getting the bomb.
On March 31/15, the Times of Israel, reported, Iran militia chief: Destroying Israel is ‘nonnegotiable’
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Since when does a leader have to “offer up hope” to an enemy dedicated to him and his people’s destruction? The only one to ever embrace that mission was The Son of God. It is too much to ask of a mortal.
There are several solutions to this. As the author suggests, emigration for 2 million Palestinians, while the best solution will not work for a simple reason. They can leave now and they haven’t.
My solution is along those lines but come from a different angle. Give the Palestinians Sinai as a homeland. Defensible borders by both Egypt and Israel. Planners from around the world can help to create cities that use hydoelectric, solar and wind powered technologies instead of fossil fuels, desalination facilities to pump water inland for drinking and agriculture uses.
Basically, by building up Sinai as a Palestinian homeland they “should” no longer threaten Israel’s right to exist and they could very well become a big player in the global economy. In addition, they would become the model to the world in green energy, proving its value from the ground up.
And to finalize this solution, move the United Nations there, since it would be the finest minds at the UN facilitating this, there is no reason why their success shouldn’t be rewarded with a new “Global City.”
Here is the kicker. If you did this for Israel and gave Israel to the Palestinians, within 5 years Sinai would become a paradise and a major player and Israel would be turned into a sh*thole and the Palis would complain that they wanted Sinai all along.
Both America and Israel have a big problem with domestic enemies. The comments section makes more sense than the article.
However, the real solution is a very strong Israel that simply “defeats and displaces” her enemies on a permanent basis. Your enemies don’t have to love you to respect your borders and your nation. That is a high priced lesson that America needs to learn soon.
Been done. Gaza.
“Been done. Gaza.”
Wasn’t large enough to hold the populace. Gaza is a self made ghetto. You need suburbs, rural areas.
Can’t we like take Lebanon before ISIS does. We can give a tiny chunk to Israel and the rest can go to the Palestinians.
I wonder if Google profiles you by what words you look up or have spell checked?
It was full of greenhouses, nurseries, businesses that were thriving, built by Israelis, when it was given to the frauds calling themselves Palestinians. Look at it now. As I said, the experiment you wish us to ponder has been done. We need not wonder about the outcome.
I agree with you. But that wasn’t a homeland. Sinai would be a homeland. In Gaza, the Palis basically trashed everything Israel gave them. This wouldn’t be given to them by Israel.
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