While it didn’t come as any particular surprise that he would do so, yesterday’s Arab League land-swap offer has been dismissed today by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who says the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians isn’t really about land in the first place.
This might come as a surprise to Palestinians living under occupation, and those who have been living in refugee camps for generations, but Netanyahu maintains that their 1967 conquest and subsequent dispossession in violation of international laws is just one of those things that happen, while the “root” of the conflict is that the people in those refugee camps haven’t been willing to accept that Israel will be “Jewish” forever.
Of course buried in Netanyahu’s comments, which really boil down to “it’s not our fault,” is the dismissal of setting borders on general principle, and by extension the continuation of the occupation.
Israel has, of course, had a long-standing interest in making any peace deal with the Palestinians a “final settlement,” answer all questions going forward. Yet Netanyahu appears to want the Palestinians to unilaterally accept everything Israel wants out of the deal, while dismissing everything the Palestinians want (land) as unimportant, then expects them to simply wait for Israel to get around to deciding what scraps, if any, to give them.
Off course is not about the stolen lands.., is about who should be the master and who is the slave.., Look: the lands are already stolen.., and no thieves will return what is stolen.., unless the thieve is faced with punishment or face a undeniable justice.., israel wants to slave the arab nations including palestinians.., we have said that: Israel will only understand the language of a forced international isolation.., as west imposed on Iraq for 14 years.., whereby more then a million Iraqis were killed.., that's the only language that Israel will ever understand.., otherwise.., a thieve will remain a thieve and will deny his wrong doing.
No surprise here really. The rogue state refuses to grow up. Like an aberrant child – you know the kind that pulls legs off spiders and bribes playground bullies with sweets to get them to do over other kids – the Israelis want it all ways up. They appear to think that because the US did just what it liked to the native Indian population, they can do the same, deliberately forgetting that the world has moved on in the intervening years. Definitely time for the US, particularly, but also the UK and the EU, to tell this overgrown child to either shut up and sit in the corner, or to behave like a mature state.
Did he made that statement with a straight face.?
"Crave all" "lose all".
How do you recognize the right of a state to exist when that state won't define and apparently won't limit its own borders? Isn't that the mistake the American Indians made?
Right -this isn't about the land. Who are you going to believe – Netanyahou or your lying eyes?
It's always about 'something else' isn't it ? The age-old Israeli dodge.
Get a load of this…
'Israeli Housing Minister: “We Will Oppose Any Budget That Does Not Include Settlements”
May 2nd 2013 : Saed Bannoura (IMEMC),- Israeli Housing Minister, Uri Ariel, of the Jewish Home Party, stated that his party will oppose an government budget that does not includes budgets for the construction and expansion of Jewish settlements in areas Israel vowed to build in after the Palestinians headed to the United Nations last year.
http://nsnbc.me/2013/05/02/israeli-housing-minist…