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June 17, 2009

The Operative Word for a future Palestine is Demilitarized Zone

By Jason Paz

On Sunday while the Iranians were rioting and Bibi Netanyahu was giving his foreign policy speech at Bar-Ilan University, President Obama was enjoying a round of golf. The dye is cast. The Palestinians can have a state of their own provided they renounce violence and stop teaching hatred to their children. Concurrent with this, their new nation must cease being a launching pad for the Iranian goals.

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The Operative Word is Demilitarized Zone

In the clip below, Pepe Escobar opines that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [the Ahmadi] has assumed the Presidency through a combination of voter fraud, guile and manipulation. In voter districts traditionally in the firm grasp of various opposition candidates, the Ahmadi won handily. He moved his troops before the election outcome was declared, as if he was expecting turmoil the moment he announced victory. He disabled Internet communications so demonstrators could not organize their opposition forces.

All indications point to a renewed cycle of threat-counter-threat this time possibly at a nuclear level. If Israel must engage in nuclear war, it would be preferable if she removed the impediments to her missiles and planes before the strike.

To answer President Obama's objections, Netanyahu's remarks at Bar-Ilan University on Sunday included a two-state solution. In his endorsement, Netanyahu said that he would accept the creation of such a state only if the international community could guarantee that it remain demilitarized. The Ahmadi's victory last week forces a major change in Israeli policy. She cannot permit nuclear delivery systems on her borders.

It is no longer relevant if the Iranian was clean or dirty.  

A speech in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared support for limited Palestinian statehood created new obstacles to peace, former United States president Jimmy Carter told Israeli lawmakers on Monday.

"In my opinion, Netanyahu brought up several obstacles to peace in his speech that others before him have not placed," Carter told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

"He insists on settlement expansion, demands that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state even though 20% of Israel's citizens are not Jews," the former US president said. It is no longer crucial alone that the settlements cease growing.

The White House on Sunday hailed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at Bar-Ilan University, in which he endorsed a limited Palestinian state, calling the speech 'an important step forward.'

(Click here for the full text of Netanyahu's speech.)

"The President welcomes the important step forward in Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech. The President is committed to two states, a Jewish state of Israel and an independent Palestine, in the historic homeland of both peoples," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

He said Obama believes this solution can and must ensure both Israel's security and the fulfillment of the Palestinians' aspirations for a viable state, and that the U.S. leader welcomes Netanyahu's endorsement of that goal.

This seeming concession serves as a test of Palestinian intent. Neither the PA nor the Hamas has sufficient control over their citizens to maintain a ceasefire or to bring an end to smuggling.

"The President will continue working with all parties - Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Arab states, and our Quartet partners - to see that they fulfill their obligations and responsibilities necessary to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a comprehensive regional peace," Gibbs added.

The president of the European Union praised Netanyahu's address in similar terms on Monday, calling it 'a step in the right direction.'

"In my view, this is a step in the right direction. The acceptance of a Palestinian state was present there," Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout, whose country currently holds the EU's six-month presidency, told reporters.

Netanyahu's policy address at Bar Ilan University on Sunday came in the wake of tremendous pressure from Obama to back the establishment of a Palestinian state and declare a freeze on West Bank settlement construction.

Though the speech was highly anticipated in light of U.S. pressure, expectations of its content were subdued.

At the time of the speech, Haaretz learned, Obama was playing golf.



Authors Bio:
Born a month before Pearl Harbor, I attended world events from an early age. My first words included Mussolini, Patton, Sahara and Patton. At age three I was a regular listener to Lowell Thomas.
My mom was an industrial nurse a member of the AFL/CIO. My dad was a painting contractor. We shopped at the Working Man's Store.
Dad's reading matter was the Old Mole the house organ of the Socialist Workers Party. I played the saxophone and became a young fan of Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Duke Ellington. Naturally, I gravitated to the Civil Rights movement.
After college to avoid the draft, I joined the US Army Reserve. Alas, this came to crowd control, which was a euphemism for busting radical potheads. When I ducked out of this duty, my commander bundled me off to a unit doomed to go to Vietnam. Ironically, my old unit went to Vietnam and the new one stayed home.
I studied economics in graduate school where I watched America go mad with war. Afterwards, I joined the rat race for a decade.
When Ronnie Reagan became President, I took up residence in Israel.
The 11 books listed below describe my adventures in Israel.
The articles reflect additional thoughts that expand on the author's ten volumes Genesis Begins the Millennia. The work begins in 1995 with a fictional account of ordinary Israelis absorbed with everyday events. There are extraordinary happenings the characters gradually recognize as portents of the Messianic Age. Volumes four and five show why the Messiah decided to delay His arrival.
Volumes six through ten [Tradebombers] begin six weeks before the 9/11 World Trade Center tragedy. Again, the characters portray ordinary citizen reaction to extraordinary events.

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