In what will, if confirmed, amount to a major policy shift for the Netanyahu government, Israeli Channel 10 is quoting Likud sources saying the Israeli PM favors Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework and is prepared to negotiate a Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 border.
Netanyahu has repeatedly ruled out the 1967 borders in the past, saying the previous borders were “indefensible.” Other key members of his government have claimed religious opposition to the pre-1967 borders, with Naftali Bennett in particular insisting the whole of the occupied territories must remain Israeli occupied forever.
Kerry’s framework agreement reportedly involves the Palestinian Authority endorsing Israel’s status as a Jewish state and Israel endorsing statehood along the 1967 borders, and while the general consensus was that this was a non-starter, that may no longer be the case.
Palestinian politicians have been reluctant to touch the “Jewish state” issue because of the implications for Palestinian refugees expelled from Israel during the Nakba. The 1967 borders have been equally touch for Israeli officials to get behind because of massive settlement across the Green Line.
"White America" issue anyone? With no right for it´s native inhabitants from which the lands where stolen?
Recognizing occupied Palestine as a “Jewish state” would leave the non-Jew Palestinians subordinate the "master race" and the relatives of the ethnic cleansed, genocided and expelled in their refugee cams and ghettos abroad, with no right to return to what was theirs even long before the word "Jew" and any such tribe was invented.
This is hard to believe. Israel will 'divide' Jerusalem and retreat from greater Israel? But Israel is building 'Jewish Only' settlements in the West Bank right now. This is a headline with nothing real behind it.
Israel's religious right will never allow this compromise. Nutanyahoo will never endorse it. Dream on, Mr. Kerry.
Whatever Bibi giveth, Bibi will take away again. He'll keep what he got for it though. It is just all losing for the Palestinians.
Whatever Bibi giveth, Bibi will take away again. He'll keep what he got for it though. It is just all losing for the Palestinians.
I totally agree with you, Mark. Bibi Boo-Boo can never be trusted; Kerry is just having pipe dreams.
As Mark Green said (and I totally agree), the religious extremists will never allow this to happen. The Palestinians will continue to be left out in the cold.
Matters not if Israel wants to call themselves the 'State of Fools' but the Palestinians are not obliged to give recognition/legitimacy to the 1967 borders ie the annexation of Palestinian land unless and until the Jewish State (or call it what it will), completes with ALL aspects of its self imposed obligations ie UN242.
Crown Prince Abdullah in 2002 offered Israel recognition including peace agreements and normalization of relations, if Israel complied with ALL aspects of the agreement. but Israel has repeatedly, for almost a decade, thumbed its nose at the Saudi Peace Plan.
I bet the licking the CIA trained Israel supported Al Qaeda Takfiris Criminals and Cannibals are getting in Syria, is reason enough for Netanyahu to try breathing life back into the Saudi Peace Plan
rather than acknowledge that Israels only right in Palestine is within borders enshrined in the UN
Partition Plan.
Matters not if Israel wants to call themselves the 'State of Fools' but the Palestinians are not obliged to give recognition/legitimacy to the 1967 borders ie the annexation of Palestinian land unless and until the Jewish State (or call it what it will), complies with ALL aspects of its self imposed obligations ie UN242.
Crown Prince Abdullah in 2002 offered Israel recognition including peace agreements and normalization of relations, if Israel complied with ALL aspects of the agreement but Israel has repeatedly, for almost a decade, thumbed its nose at the Saudi Peace Plan.
I bet the licking the CIA trained Israel supported Al Qaeda Takfiris Criminals and Cannibals are getting in Syria, is reason enough for Netanyahu to try breathing life back into the Saudi Peace Plan rather than acknowledge that Israel's only right in Palestine is within borders enshrined in the UN Partition Plan.
now the settlers blow a fuse and start rioting and a few IDF troops get pelted with stones and the Israeli government asks for deviations from the 67 lines because 'these settlers are going to be very hard to shift and in the spirit of self determination and freedom we make those areas join the fatherla…, I mean their co religionists…"
This, as they occupy more land! Only a fool would believe this report.
I seriously doubt that Netanyahoo and his governing coalition are going to remain friends if this report is even close to being true. The hardliners Bibi has aligned himself with, in order to rule, are not going to allow all the stolen land to be returned to the Palestinians. There's obviously something else going on here.
The agreement – what we know of it – would require Palestinians to accept second class citizenship, at best, and renunciation of lands that belong to them. In return they are guaranteed nothing but more talks that might lead to an agreement which the Israelis will find or create a reason to abrogate at the earliest opportunity, while demanding that Palestinian concessions are irrevocable. We've seen it all before with the Oslo accords.
It's not hard to see why Netanyahu would agree to Kerry's pro-Israel proposal, despite the obligatory objections of hardliners, but why the Palestinians would accept it is beyond understanding. Something else is clearly going on if they do.
Of course, Bibi…..
1. While pretending seriousness about peace, and uttering "1967 borders", some flunkies from the IDF run outside with rockets and launch them into some empty field – as they are known to do….
2. Next day, Gaza gets the sh*t bombed out of them, and you steal more Palestinian land, because you have a right to "defend" yourself….
3. Peace process is over because "Arabs are not interested in peace, only in Israel's destruction blahblahholocaustblahblah….
4. Profit
Zionism is a disease.
typical talks pals – now about the proposed 67 border. yahoo – never.
The US was to cease funding Israel should Dimona become Public Knowledge. Pres.Kennedy says Israel has WMD, Pres.Carter says Israel had WMD, PM Olmert says Israel has WMD and thanks to the revealing photos of Mordecai Venumu, who is still incarcerated in Israeli jail, Israel WMD cache is no longer an 'ambiguity' even the Butcher and his dog knows Israel has WMD.
Thanks to MO, Netanyahu and his' honey pots' have nothing to blackmail this POTUS, there is no Lewinsky or Jeff Gannon scandal hovering over the WH and despite Netanyahu shabby involvement in the US election Romney didn't get elected. Pres.Obama must know that continued support of Israel is untenable and now is as good a time as ever to turf the little ingrate to the nearest kerb.
He will push peace based on annexing the 67 borders. Leave a few Bantustans for temporary storage of Arabs until they find a final solution to the problem. I think ethnic cleansing is the current plan unless Jordan or Egypt balk.
The Generals would go along with moving a couple million West Bank Arabs to the Gaza strip since they do what the US orders and we do what Israel says.