Israel 'ready for peace talks' Ha!
Israel 'ready for peace talks'
... I can't believe the audacity of such a headline!
Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, has said his country is ready for talks with the Palestinians with no pre-conditions and denied that settlements were an obstacle to peace.
Of course, those illegal settlements are part of a campaign of displacement or ethnic cleansing and thus, are an obstacle to peace.
On Monday, newspaper headlines across the United States announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had endorsed the creation of a Palestinian state, and the White House welcomed the speech as "an important step forward."
Look up the word "state" in the dictionary. You'll probably see references to territorial integrity, power and sovereignty. The entity that Netanyahu was talking about on Sunday would lack all of those constitutive features. A "state" without a defined territory that is not allowed to control its own borders or airspace and cannot enter into treaties with other states is not a state, any more than an apple is an orange or a car an airplane.
"We" are a people, Netanyahu was saying; "they" are merely a "population." "We" have a right to a state -- a real state. "They" do not.
So, Israel has stated the preconditions for "peace" and they are the complete subjugation of Palestine... and that is really not "peace" at all.
... I can't believe the audacity of such a headline!
Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, has said his country is ready for talks with the Palestinians with no pre-conditions and denied that settlements were an obstacle to peace.
Of course, those illegal settlements are part of a campaign of displacement or ethnic cleansing and thus, are an obstacle to peace.
On Monday, newspaper headlines across the United States announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had endorsed the creation of a Palestinian state, and the White House welcomed the speech as "an important step forward."
Look up the word "state" in the dictionary. You'll probably see references to territorial integrity, power and sovereignty. The entity that Netanyahu was talking about on Sunday would lack all of those constitutive features. A "state" without a defined territory that is not allowed to control its own borders or airspace and cannot enter into treaties with other states is not a state, any more than an apple is an orange or a car an airplane.
"We" are a people, Netanyahu was saying; "they" are merely a "population." "We" have a right to a state -- a real state. "They" do not.
So, Israel has stated the preconditions for "peace" and they are the complete subjugation of Palestine... and that is really not "peace" at all.
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