Rejuvenation

Rejuvenation is a pun for what Tom Friedman is doing. Tom is Jewish.

Not only did he most probably come up with most if not all of this plan many years ago to sell it as a Saudi initiative but he is now rejuvenating it:

Saudi Time:-

...If these talks fail, with 300,000 Israeli settlers already living in the West Bank, and with Hamas becoming ensconced with its own government in Gaza, talk of a “two-state solution” will enter the realm of fantasy.

...Even if the two sides swap land and 80 percent of the Israeli settlers in the West Bank get to stay put, 60,000 will have to be removed. Many will leave peacefully — if Mr. Netanyahu strikes the land-for-security deal he wants — but thousands will not. They will have to be forcibly removed from Biblical sites by the Israeli Army, and the process will not be pretty...Hamas will employ whatever violence it can to overturn any deal. It will not be pretty.

...Some eight years ago, in February 2002, I interviewed then-Crown Prince-now-King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at his horse farm outside Riyadh. I shared with him a column I had written — suggesting that the Arab League put forth a peace plan offering Israel full peace for full withdrawal from the West Bank, Gaza and Arab East Jerusalem for a Palestinian state — when he feigned surprise and said: “Have you broken into my desk?” The Saudi leader said he was preparing the exact same plan [yeah, sure.] and offered it up — “full withdrawal from all the occupied territories, in accord with U.N. resolutions, including in Jerusalem, for full normalization of relations.”

...It is time to bring it out of the air. King Abdullah should invite Mr. Netanyahu to Riyadh and present it to him personally.

Abdullah need not go to Jerusalem, as Anwar Sadat did, or recognize Israel. [hey, why not? is there not to be peace which is all about "peace between peoples"?] He can, though, still have a huge impact on the process by simply handing his plan to the leader for whose country it was intended...Saudi officials have developed a reputation in Washington for being experts at advising everyone else about the hard things they must do, while being reluctant to step out themselves. This is their moment — to do something hard and to do something important.

First of all it popped up in 2007.

JCPA disassembled it.

And with the question of "refugees" fudged, and other matters, as Jonathan Tobin noted, this just won't do.

But Friedman actually gets paid in money and glory to write this claptrap.


P.S. See SoccerDad on this.


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