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redneckgaijin) wrote2010-11-29 08:32 pm
redneckgaijin) wrote2010-11-29 08:32 pm
Forget Israel-Palestine peace in our lifetime.
Andrew Sullivan gives us the relevant portion from the recent Wikileaks dump:
In other words, the "two-state solution" is dead as a doornail. Netanyahu wants permanent occupation of the West Bank, with Palestinians permanently second-class subjects unable to prevent the ongoing theft of their homes and property by Israeli settlers and radicals.
There will be no Palestinian nation with Netanyahu as Israel's prime minister. The best Palestinians can hope for is a powerless "homeland" on the lines of old South Africa, wholly dependent upon Israel for absolutely everything. This, of course, is unacceptable to any group seeking independence, or even equal rights within one nation- and so another entafadda is only a matter of time...
... followed, I fear, by Israel's final solution to the Palestinian problem.
Yes. I went there. Not hyperbole. Serious as a heart attack. I believe the current Israeli government will quite cheerfully imprison, expel, or exterminate not merely Palestinians but also Arab Israeli citizens before much longer. And they will have majority popular support for it when it happens.
What else does it mean that Netanyahu's notion of peace requires that Palestinians be absolutely unable to defend themselves, unable to trade with anyone other than Israel, and unable to eject Israelis on their land?
He also indicated he wasn't interested in a sovereign Palestinian state emerging in the West Bank, but rather "an agreement over territory,settlements and 'refined' Palestinian sovereignty without an army or control over air space and borders." Further evidence of Netanyahu's stance, which he states is not unlike Livni's, is described in a cable about a meeting between Netanyahu and a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) in late April 2009. He states "A Palestinian state must be demilitarized, without control over its air space and electro-magnetic field, and without the power to enter into treaties or control its borders."
In other words, the "two-state solution" is dead as a doornail. Netanyahu wants permanent occupation of the West Bank, with Palestinians permanently second-class subjects unable to prevent the ongoing theft of their homes and property by Israeli settlers and radicals.
There will be no Palestinian nation with Netanyahu as Israel's prime minister. The best Palestinians can hope for is a powerless "homeland" on the lines of old South Africa, wholly dependent upon Israel for absolutely everything. This, of course, is unacceptable to any group seeking independence, or even equal rights within one nation- and so another entafadda is only a matter of time...
... followed, I fear, by Israel's final solution to the Palestinian problem.
Yes. I went there. Not hyperbole. Serious as a heart attack. I believe the current Israeli government will quite cheerfully imprison, expel, or exterminate not merely Palestinians but also Arab Israeli citizens before much longer. And they will have majority popular support for it when it happens.
What else does it mean that Netanyahu's notion of peace requires that Palestinians be absolutely unable to defend themselves, unable to trade with anyone other than Israel, and unable to eject Israelis on their land?