With the peace talks on the brink of collapse, the Israeli government made a last ditch offer seemingly not worth mentioning. The Israeli envoy proposed Palestinian “statehood” be defined along the boundaries of the existing West Bank wall.
The wall juts about wildly in the West Bank and would separate Palestine into walled in statelets, with transport between them entire under the control of the Israeli government. The PLO, as expected, rejected the plan.
So why was it even proposed? Israeli analysts believe the offer was made because Palestinians often complain about the Israeli government’s refusal to discuss borders. Though a ridiculous one, the West Bank wall would technically be a border, so Israel can insist they did present something border-related.
The talks were never expected to go anywhere, and the only reason that Israel and the PLO even met was because the Mideast Quartet gave them an “ultimatum” and neither side wanted to be blamed for not meeting. As has so often been the case, both sides seem to have positioned the talks to creating talking points for why they failed, as opposed to trying to reach an actual deal.
This proposal is just another in a long line of proposal which were designed to make noise. In the eye of the zionist there is no need for defining any real borders. I always believe the 1948 war was more to create Israel and not restrict its future expansion. If the United Nations created an Israel with defined borders then all future expansions would be difficult. As long as they can bleed the rest of the world they will not have any reason to make peace. Stop the massive welfare and reform the zionist banking system and there might be a chance for peace.
"We'll make for you, a little shtetl or two." – Ira Gershwin 1928
A ghetto in which you can rest your head and call it your own. With your own ghetto administration and ghetto police, backed up by the friendly volke at the Sicherheitsdienst and the Rasse und Seidlugs Hauptampt.
Gimme a Sieg?
And before that there was the friendly Cheka and NKVD and the Gulag Archipelago run by Lavrenti Beria, Lazar Kaganovich, Genrickh Yoguda and other disciples of Karl Marx.
Why would land grabbers want borders?
"Israel Offers Wall as Border."
To which Palestinians offered their middle fingers!
I guess the Palestinians still remember the heroic actions of Menachem Begin's Irgun at Deir Yassin and the destruction of the King David Hotel in 1948, among other things.
Your enemy hates you and wants to destroy you, and you reward their "good" intentions with land prizes… hmm..