Well just as we have said on so many occasions before, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu facing defeat and desperate to hold onto power in electeions scheduled for Tuesday March 17 said, as long as he is Prime Minister there will be no State of Palestine.
Well wow , take a moment to digest that statement.
For years Israel has gobbled up Palestinian territory with unprecedented rapaciousness.
Many people have seen it for what it is, a craven land grab, end of story.
American Presidents from Carter to Clinton, to Bush and now Obama has demanded that as part of any peaceful end to the protracted Israeli /Palestinian conflict, Israel must stop building settlements on Palestinian lands. Nevertheless none of them did anything to stop the Billions of tax-payers dollars which pour into Israel annually ‚even as Israel thumbs its nose in contempt.
Ariel Sharone once said it was real easy to move America to do its bidding.
Israel argues they need to confiscate more territory to place a buffer between them and their enemies.
That entire argument is flawed and unworthy of serious discussion. Based on that argument Israel would perpetually need to c take territory until Palestinians are forced out of the region all together.
Frustrated with that argument , former President Bill Clinton stated some time ago, Israel should state it does not want a two state solution and live with the consequences. President Carter who worked assiduously to broker peace between the two parties, and brokered the historic 1978 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt have been factually forthright in talking about Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinian people.
President carter said that the state of Israel is worse than the Apartheid system which existed in South Africa. Carter outraged many Jews who are generally above criticism with his 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
In the Book President Carter said quote:” “The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Road-map for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens — and honor its own previous commitments — by accepting its legal borders,” end quote.…
In response American Jewish Committee head David Harris responded in a column for The Jerusalem Post. “In accepting the Palestinian narrative, Carter has conveniently revised history, excused the Palestinians for their tragic failure to come to terms with Israel each time the chance presented itself, and blithely ignored Israel’s very legitimate security concerns,” Harris wrote in 2006.
“Many Israelis, including those that once greatly admired his role in fostering peace with Egypt, may never again trust Carter’s diplomacy, including his vaunted role as an election monitor. He can no longer claim to be an honest broker.”
So there you have it they only have use for you when you agree with them.
After the expected firewall of protest from Jews and their supporters, Carter offered up a mea culpa of sorts in March of 2010. By the summer of that very year Carter was forced to slam Israel once again in an op-ed piece quote:
“There is no humane or legal justification for the way the Israeli Defense Forces are conducting this war,” the two former presidents wrote. “Israeli bombs, missiles, and artillery have pulverized large parts of Gaza, including thousands of homes, schools, and hospitals. More than 250,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Gaza. Hundreds of Palestinian noncombatants have been killed. Much of Gaza has lost access to water and electricity completely. This is a humanitarian catastrophe.”
Netanyahu’s statement came after polls in Israel showed him losing ground in elections slated for Tuesday. Some observers have opined that Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of congress in defiance of President Obama’s efforts to get a deal with Iran may have backfired.
Running in a tight race against Isaac Herzog, his competitor from the Zionist Union party. Experts say the race is too close to call.
“I think anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state and to evacuate territory is giving radical Islam a staging ground against the State of Israel,”
On these pages we have consistently maintained that the Zionist state is not interested in a two state solution.
Peace is not in Israel’s plans, never was. Ariel Sharone and now Benjamin Netanyahu has no interest in peace.
Netanyahu like Sharone, understands the simplicity of making that a reality, as far as America is concerned.
Continue to settle more land, Palestinians respond to the injustice, Israel reacts with overwhelming force, there is no consequence.
Of course Israel has no obligation to respect International law. Bombing schools, hospitals and residences are quite normal. It’s just Palestinian lives at stake.
Their argument?
We need more land to separate us from the terrorist Palestinians ., so they take more and the cycle continues . Never mind that it is Israel which has the nuclear weapons and the cutting edge weaponry, the best in the world, as against the downtrodden Palestinians throwing rocks and blowing themselves up in exasperation.
They do all this withAmerica’s backing of course.