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Israeli

(4,132 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 04:12 AM Sep 2014

Netanyahu's government is not serious about peace

The prime minister's conduct during most of his time in office makes a mockery of his various slogans and declarations concerning new diplomatic opportunities.

Haaretz Editorial | Sep. 2, 2014 |

The ink was not yet dry on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promises, after Operation Protective Edge, of a “diplomatic vision” and “new opportunities in the Middle East,” before he and his cabinet were back to their old policy, which is subservient to the interests of the settlers and those who reject peace.

The Civil Administration’s announcement of the expropriation of 3,800 dunams (950 acres) of village lands in the West Bank to create continuity of settlement between Gush Etzion and Jerusalem, in response to the kidnapping and murder in June of three Jewish teens in the Etzion bloc, renders Netanyahu’s slogans meaningless of value.

It does so in the same way that his conduct during most of his time as prime minister makes a mockery of his declarations, in his Bar-Ilan speech, regarding his commitment to the two-state solution and the vision of peace. The repeated announcements of expanding construction in the settlements during the nine months of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority brought those talks to an end. The outcome shows that Netanyahu continues to prove right the Palestinians’ claims that Israel has no interest in peace talks.

It is difficult to understand why the prime minister takes the trouble, from time to time, to plant the hope that he wants a peace agreement, when at the same time his government continues to builds in the territories — activity that is nothing but a targeted assassination of such an agreement. The prime minister — who in the early days of the latest cease-fire conveyed the sense that he had awoken from his “no partner” obsession and had “discovered” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who during the fighting in the Gaza Strip prevented the outbreak of an intifada in the West Bank — is himself destroying the new opportunities he claimed to seek.

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Netanyahu's government is not serious about peace (Original Post) Israeli Sep 2014 OP
Sky is blue, water is wet, Sarah Palin is a derp, got some other news for us Israeli? Scootaloo Sep 2014 #1
Tale of Two Threads Scoot .... Israeli Sep 2014 #2
I missed that first one, as you noted Scootaloo Sep 2014 #3
Thread number 2 Scoot .... Israeli Sep 2014 #4
 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
1. Sky is blue, water is wet, Sarah Palin is a derp, got some other news for us Israeli?
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 04:50 AM
Sep 2014


No seriously. Signing a truce with one hand and signing into being a renewed act of war with the other? I'm sure someone will be along shortly to tell us how this is progressive because democrats support gay rights and David Duke is an asshole, or however the refrain goes these days. it's so hard to keep track of the bilious nonsense surging forth these days, really.

Israel has no interest in peace. The Us is not an honest broker in the issue. I'm afraid the only feasible solution at this point is for international sanctions against Israel, real, tangible political and economic pressure to get serious about peace. if such measures are good enough for Putin, they're good enough for Netanyahu - and I'm sorry to say that, knowing you live there and all Israeli, but... really? It's coming down to either an international crackdown on Israel's abuses, or we might as well just write the Palestinian people out of history entirely.

Israeli

(4,132 posts)
2. Tale of Two Threads Scoot ....
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 05:30 AM
Sep 2014

1)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113474288#post6

Quote :

" ...but honestly I dont see a different approach coming from America ....I dont agree with Dahlia Scheindlin on this ...

" Outside pressure from “our own”—imagine liberal American Jews appealing directly to their Israeli kin—is more likely to resonate with most Israelis "....

I'm with Nurit Peled-Elhanan . "

2)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113473310


 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
3. I missed that first one, as you noted
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 05:41 AM
Sep 2014

Someone got upset with me pointing out another poster's support for genocidal war crimes and decided i should be silenced for a few days. Eh, what're you gonna do, I guess.

But help me out here - I've been sick over hte weekend and am still a little bit woozy, so maybe i'm not grasping. But, what are you showing me here, in particular?

Israeli

(4,132 posts)
4. Thread number 2 Scoot ....
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 02:51 AM
Sep 2014

Quote you :

" Israel has no interest in peace. The Us is not an honest broker in the issue. I'm afraid the only feasible solution at this point is for international sanctions against Israel, real, tangible political and economic pressure to get serious about peace. if such measures are good enough for Putin, they're good enough for Netanyahu - and I'm sorry to say that, knowing you live there and all Israeli, but... really? It's coming down to either an international crackdown on Israel's abuses, or we might as well just write the Palestinian people out of history entirely.

You will grasp it if you read all that she wrote ......

http://972mag.com/why-the-eu-needs-to-rein-in-israels-settlement-policy/94370/

by Nurit Peled-Elhanan

Quote Nurit Peled-Elhanan :

" As an Israeli longing for peace and justice, I believe Europe has to contain the settlement policy with greater determination and more concrete measures. The world increasingly understands the threat that the settlements pose to peace and stability in the region. Over time, neither Palestinians nor Israelis can survive without freedom and independence for the Palestinians. Already, the undemocratic character of the state of Israel is increasingly transforming it into an apartheid state.

For the two nations living in this region, there is a joint and real interest in ending the Israeli occupation as a precondition for peace. We, the citizens of Israel and the stateless people of Palestine, cannot bring this about on our own. We need the help of the international community at large and of the EU in particular.
"

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