Reports coming out of Israel today detail the so-called Obama-Abdullah plan, an initiative for Palestinian statehood created by President Obama and Jordan’s King Abdullah II. The hugely ambitious plan aims for an “independent, democratic and contiguous Palestinian state,” which would not have a military of its own and would be forbidden from entering into military pacts with other nations “for Israel’s security.”
The Palestinan state would have East Jerusalem as its capital, and the US would arrange for Israel and the Palestinians to swap territory to settle on the borders. Jerusalem’s old city would be an international zone. Palestinians would also be required to give up any claim to a right of return, and western states would give some measure of compensation to the massive numbers of Palestinian refugees living overseas.
The demand that Palestine have no active military while living next to a heavily armed nation with which it is on traditionally bad terms is likely to be difficult issue to reconcile. With Israel having ostensibly withdrawn from Gaza while regularly attacking it, the question is bound to be asked: will the new state remain Israeli occupied territory in everything but name?
The ability to come up with a contiguous Palestine seems even more difficult. There have been advocates of land swaps in the past – notably current Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party, but the amount of territory that would have to be exchanged to link Gaza and the West Bank would be enormous, and doubtlessly controversial.
What about the water issue? What about the air space issue?
Why is it acceptable for Zionist and convert Jews (Khazars) to have a right of return but the Palestinians who are still holding deeds to their lands cannot return?
If the peace agreement is just going to be a cosmetic Palestinian state with no real sovereignty then nothing is going to change.
If Palestinians cannot have their own army then Israel too should lose much of its military and give up its Nukes.
Both Israel and Palestine should only be allowed to have defensive weapons with the US guaranteeing their security (including a UN resolution) where each country will be severely sanctioned and blockaded if it attacks the other country.
So it seems, more often than not that [I] am the first commenter….So let me take the opportunity to
put my spin on what is occurring….. I suppose when Obama [I voted for him] chose Rahm……. These are the sort of policies we should have expected… Who IS Obama?? Personally I believe that we do NOT know WHO Obama is……..OR what he believes…….OR what, in the end, or WHO he will stand for……
Further, I believe that Obama himself does NOT know…WHAT, in the end, or to put it another way….He [himself] does not KNOW…where this tumultuous voyage that he has set HIMSELF upon will lead, OR who and or what~~ HE~~ will, MUST become–on this long passage–to reach the next port with his dignity and person intact ……Having said this..it does appear that he intends to take the Israeli side [more or less] in this …the MOTHER of all Middle and even further East problems…… in
this world we live in at this time!! Did Aeriel Sharon's little adventure into the Rock of the DOME [one of Islams holiest sites] with 500 or a 1000 armed police do anything to inflame the 1.4OO,OOO,OOO to 1.6OO,OOO,OOO WORLDWIDE ??? Duh…Oh YEAH it DID..!!! Did this affront to Islam enable those with radical proclivities to find support, both financial and PERSONAL among the UMAH…and
perhaps make Muslims more susceptible to radical initiatives and actions?? I personally think that the Oil, Israel, military industrial complex WANT a radical Islam and do everything possible to promote radical groups, actions and thinking by stealth as they condemn it publicly…..They think it's good for their interests, gives them an excuse to steal their oil, land and bomb, bomb, bomb them.
They were using the stealth bomber on the Taliban!! Wouldn't Cesna's have been more appropriate?
Finally, I believe that 911was done by ??? [Oil, Israel & the MIC..] to change the paradigm and put an end to Peace dividend thinking..and hey, it was so easy..that "they" laugh at us cause we're so stupid
"western states would give some measure of compensation to the massive numbers of Palestinian refugees living overseas."
-Why is it that when other countries violate international law, those countries themselves end up paying reparations, but when it comes to Israel, everyone just assumes that all the other countries in the world will pay their reparations for them?
What is it with that country and their sense of entitlement? Their sense of exclusiveness? Their narcissistic rhetoric?
Bravo.
I couldn't agree with you more. It is getting really old that Israel is treated as a the chosen country in the world where everyone in the world seems to owe them everything the zionist want.
Genius. Lubricant for the cyclical process of provocation and theft. Palestinians will be forced to further radicalise, or just do whatever they can to even up the score while they still exist. To a chorus of media shills saying "Told you so – see what they are like!". Mr Netanyahu, what we hate is what you do – not who you are. Just as we hated what the Nazis did. A passion for justice and a passion to put a stop to injustice. It's part of being human.
The Obama Netanyahu "talks" are not more than a P.R. stunt. An independent Palestinian "State" ? it's just too rediculous for words and it will not and in fact cannot ever happen. Israel is heading for it's own demise which will be accelerated by its planned pre-emptive (nuclear ?) strike against Iran, which I predict wll happen within the next year or so. The same as the Soviet Union and the South African apartheids regime were carrying "genes" of their own destruction, so will Israel be wiped from the pages of history before the end of the 21st century. (some reckon within three decades).