Benjamin Netanyahu Says He Opposes Palestinian State In Any Postwar Scenario

[moniss]

40. And your "friends" need to be able to say

no to you. It won't happen. But they should say it. I've said before that the solution should be imposed by an international UN peacekeeping force. At one point before the end of the mandate the British were precisely right in opposing the proposed partition plan. At that time their reasoning was that any solution that was not agreed to by the Arab bloc/Palestinians would fail. They were correct. But basically half of the plan was allowed by the UN to go into effect. That was the mistake at that time. Even given all their faults and bad behavior during the Mandate the British were right about this. A modification of the broken clock theory in a way.

So now after decades and decades of the world community and the UN giving in to the idea that the US will somehow shepherd a negotiated solution as an unbiased facilitator we have undeniable proof that the approach is a complete and utter failure and nobody could possibly contain busting out in laughter at the idea that the US is or has been functioning as an unbiased facilitator.

Imposition of a solution by the international community will likely not happen because of the US veto. But it is all that will work. If Israel reoccupies Gaza, which I said early on was the likely scenario, does any rational person think the violence and attacks in response are not going to take place? How does decades more of violent attacks against Israeli citizens continuing on forever into the future provide a benefit to them or give their future a hope of peace? It is madness to assume it would be anything other than continuing horror. The British conclusion redux. Even if Likud and the rest of the hardliners think that basically taking over Gaza and the West Bank to an even greater degree than now would somehow end the attacks they are fooling themselves and misleading their citizens if they are claiming it would.

So the bottom line is that all of this mess looks like it will continue on for decades and decades longer with no end in sight. End Hamas and another takes it's place. End that one and then another rises to continue the attacks. Given the chance years ago to say no to the idea of a half a plan the UN chose, after a great deal of crooked political and economic pressure on members to accept the plan, the idea that they could somehow "contain" the fallout, make false promises and kick the can down the road. In that regard little has changed or is likely to.

Upon edit I wanted to add that if people look at my posts they will see me decry the actions of all sides throughout the history of all of this. However it seems to be constantly necessary to say that in every post when making any statement about this subject.