The art of saying Yes
Israel's ideological identity has been eroded over the years by futile Israeli concessions initiated by The Oslo Accords. More wars were generated, more pressures were placed on Israel, impossible expectations of Israel were raised, more concessions extracted, and more incurable damage was caused to Israel's interests.
...It is as if the Israel-Palestinian issue is Israel's main concern, rather than the much more menacing Israeli-Arab conflict and the growing threat of Islam against the Jewish state and dare I say, against the rest of the western world. Since Israel does not propose a clear program for the Middle East, nor address, in any imaginative way, the problems under consideration with the Palestinians, the Arab and the Muslim world, it finds itself constantly on the defensive...
A positive approach would be to announce a four-principle policy...
First, Israel should declare its recognition of the right of self-determination of all Arab and Muslim peoples, including the Palestinians, providing that they recognize the same for the Jewish people...
Second, Israel recognizes the national liberation aspirations of all those nations recognizing Israel's own national liberation movement, that being Zionism. In Oslo, Israel recognized the PLO, but her mindless negotiators never insisted on reciprocation...
...Third, the entire land of historical Palestine, including Israel, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza (the land of Israel in Israeli parlance), must be put up for negotiation and be re-apportioned between Israeli-Jews and Palestinian-Arabs, who are both the owners of the territory and the sole determinants of its disposition. How they each call their portion is according to their own discretion...
Fourth, when the final and permanent border between the two entities is determined by negotiations, distinction must be made between sovereignty over territory and the personal status of the inhabitants. To wit, that Palestinian Arabs, including the Arabs in Israel who elect to identify as Palestinians, can continue to live in Israel as alien residents who owe their loyalty to the Palestinian state, and vice versa for Israeli Jews who would elect to reside in the Palestinian territory...
He must have been reading my blog.
Actually, we know each other well and have appeared together at various forums.
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