In a move that seems certain to torpedo what little hope remains of a peace deal in the near term, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that Israel be allowed to maintain a permanent military presence in the Jordan Valley.
This means in practice that even if Israel agrees to the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, it would insist on maintaining military control over the border between that state and Jordan, and would continue to have troops inside the “demilitarized” future nation.
The demand has already been angrily rejected by the Palestinian Authority, which hopes for an independent state free of any Israeli control. The two sides have not been negotiating in recent months at any rate, as Israel has refused Palestinian calls to stop expanding the settlements in the West Bank until final borders are settled.
Netanyahu also condemned the Palestinians in general while making the demands, however, suggesting his call was not so much a serious attempt to gain such a concession as a rhetorical move. Netanyahu insisted the Palestinians were not “ready for peace.”
Israel, go home. back to the USA where you came from.
What an ignorant comment, even more alarming someone thumbed up it. Because all Israelis were once New Yorkers, right.
I think it was the very man in this article who said if the Palestinians demilitarized there would be peace, if the Israelis demilitarized there would be no Israel.
israel would exist as much as the "demilitarized" palestinian state(s) could ever exist
funny how the proxy must find peace but the patron can continue its endless war.
all countries in history have done nothing but mimic that which has succeeded for other states.
the united states still can not honor the treaties made to the broken and scattered remnants of our native population,
why would a state that is given an endless money supply for the explicit goal of seizing land and expanding its borders ever care to find peace
Israel doesn't want peace.
Iarael is disgusting!