Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today issued a number of demands for any potential peace deal reached with the Palestinian Authority. Though the demands were largely the same issued (and rejected) before, they also include some new ones and hints that even more may be in the offing.
Netanyahu is demanding that the Palestinian Authority embrace Israel as a “Jewish” state and pledge to abandon any future demands against Israel on any basis. This would include reparations for territory seized and a complete abrogration of the “right of return” for Arabs expelled from Israel in 1948. Both demands are likely non-starters.
Netanyahu also pledge to seek “real security arrangements on the ground” to ensure that Israel would obtain essentially eternal military and border control over a nominally independent Palestine. This has been hinted at in the past but the exact details of how it would be accomplished remain to be spelled out.
At any rate the peace talks appear to be on the verge of collapse even before they have started, as Netanyahu’s demands as well as forthcoming settlement expansions look to derail the talks in comparatively short order.
Netanyahu demands and Demands and DEMANDS…!!!!! One could forgive this strident [man] talk if there was ANY threat WHATSOEVER to the Israeli theft of Palestinian land AND their regional hegemony….. BUT The softcore genocide that Israel is inflicting on their hapless Palestinian victims rivals the one done to their German co-religionists… AND their treatment of their Palestinian charges bears way more similarity to what the third reich did to them and their Gypsy fellow victims, than it does to any "moral" give and take of contemporary strictures.. How is Gaza different from the Warsaw Ghetto…??? And the murderous Israelis….. How do they differ from the Germans who killed so many of them???
He really got a lot of demands with that. Maybe he just cant make it on his own.
Sean
He really got a lot of demands with that. Maybe he just cant make it on his own.
Sean
Hitler would be so proud of the israeli government
What is behind Israel demands is a genuine fear that one day it will evaporate, the Israeli behaviour since 1948 is a pure and continuous crimes that the whole world is aware of and will never support publicly or behind the scene, US umbrella has allowed Israel to end up in this mess where Israel will pay the ultimate price which they are quite familiar with MASS EXPULSION.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/08/29/israel….
CNN again fails to deliver the goods on any subject. Most of the article talks about heresy (he said she said kind of thing) vs. any real substance in the matter.
Actually, Netanyahoo is telling the Palestinians that they can have peace if they will merely shut up and accept things as they are. I'm surprised he didn't offer them the peace of the grave.
Netanyahoo understands the world. He grew up suffering when his father has a great job in University of Penn. Netanyahoo understands the poor because he saw them as his travels took him from his mainline high school to the shore. It is amazing how a rich kid of the mainline can pull off this image of being a kid who suffered when the reality is he was always living in the lap of luxury and had more than most. How does a rich kid get any understanding of living poor and suffering from lack of food. Natanyahoo has nver lacked anything anc clearly he never missed a meal in his life. The chip on his shoulder is inbred and not learned from something in the past.
The middle east conflict WILL NEVER BE SETTLED. Why do we keep throwing money at it? ITS INSANE……
(1) The politicians serving in the United States Congress give our tax dollars (or borrowed dollars) to Israel. (2) Isreal then launders the U.S. tax dollars and returns the money as campaign contributions to Members of the US Congress. (3) The U.S. Congress then votes to send additional tax dollars to Israel thus gaining more Israeli campaign dollars for votes to further subject U.S. citizens to Israel's demands and actions against the interests of the U.S . (4) Subseqently, Israeli funded AIPAC demands further consessions for Israel from the U.S. Congress. This is why the United States Congress continues to throw more money at Israel and concede concessions which commit U.S. citizens to provide for Israel's aggressive actions against the Palestinians, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. The U.S. has bought off Egypt and Jordan.
It would be more correct to refer to Israel as a rogue "Jewish Supremacist" state. No legitimate Palestinian leader would ever accept Israel's 'right' to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and steal their property for the benefit of Jews.
The "Jewish State" thing is a ploy to stop negotiation before it begins. Israel uses this BS everytime peace is being promoted by the sane world.
Israel is the Mafia with an army, navy and air force….nukes too!
Every Middle East country that operates as a Muslim theocracy is vilified by both Israel and the USA. The Islam religion cannot be trusted to provide for meaningful government and justice systems. So why are we supporting a Jewish theocracy in the Middle East? The UN screwed up when they did not declare Israel and Jerusalem, in particular, to be an international country (city) that would accomodate the full extent of its past history. Netanyahu (and the USA) should be drafting up plans for a country where all citizens have equal rights, including the Palestinians. If he doesn't, you can be sure that the surrounding world will remember the grave injustice and someday "right the wrong".
Peace is what we desire yet we are the ones who tend to break it.
Jane
Netanyahu is only posturing…Israel does NOT want peace because borders would be established.
israel always says the Arabs only understand force…but the same goes for Israel..they need to have force thrusted on them, then they will get it.