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Doing so reflects knowing that negotiations between two unequal partners places Israel in control of a process assuring Palestinians dead-end failure again.
On September 28, Israel's Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon told Israel National News that Israeli/Palestinian negotiations assure no prospects for peace, saying:
"Does anyone think we can sign an agreement" when young Palestinians are "brought up" believing "there is no Jewish nation.""There is no doubt that the Palestinians going to the UN is a gross violation of the Oslo Accords....(W)e are ready to talk about everything, but the fundamental questions we raised were answered with a resounding 'no,' for example of a future consent, not a condition for beginning negotiations, to recognize Israel as a Jewish nation, and we were told that will never happen. So what can we talk about?"
Oslo surrendered to Israeli demands in return for which Palestinians became their own enforcers. Peace or treaty negotiations aren't contingent on recognizing another nation's religion.
Principles of the 1994 Israel-Jordan agreement included borders, normalization, security, defense, Jerusalem, water, and Palestinian refugees. Israel never demanded Jordan recognize a Jewish state. It likely never came up nor would it with other Arab states.
Why then Palestine? It's a convenient way to blame PA negotiators for refusing to accept unreasonable Israeli demands only asked of them to extract more concessions and deny justice again.
Yet Ma'an News said Secretary of State Clinton told Egypt's al-Hayat TV Saturday that Palestinians must be flexible, saying:
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