The Speech Netanyahu Should but Won't Give - washingtonpost.com »
Posted By gamahuche 8 months ago in NewsHere's what Benyamin Netanyahu should - but most likely won't - say in his much-anticipated policy speech on Sunday.
Bar Illan University President Moshe Kaveh, distinguished faculty, distinguished guests, dear Israelis:
In every nation's history, there are moments that call on its leader to face the truth and tell the truth to his fellow countrymen and women. This is such a moment. It is a moment of peril, but also a moment of great opportunity.
You have heard a lot from me in recent months about the peril. I am terribly concerned about the existential threats to our country. But you have not heard enough from me about the opportunity that we have today to devise a strategic, long-term approach to reduce these threats.
We have an opportunity - one that may not reoccur for generations to come - to reach the kind of regional security that we have been seeking since our parents and grandparents established this astonishing country sixty-one years ago.
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gamahuche8 months ago
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This is a follow-up to a story I posted earlier : http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/06/12/are-we-r...
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As an optimist I can see the light! As a realist I wonder if its bright enough.. -
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CHAM8 months ago
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Gama. Another good post. But there were some things left unsaid:
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1 If peace is signed and a two state solution agreed to, Israel will immediately withdraw from every last inch of the new Palestinian State territory.
2 There will be no Israeli enclaves within the new State
3 There will be no Israeli interference with the new
Palestinian Government.
4 Land will be ceded to the new state so that Gaza and the
West Bank will be connected without traversing any of the
state of Israel.
5 A port will be built for the new Palestinian state.
6 Utilities will be provided uninterrupted by Israel until a
new source for Utilities may be developed independent of
Israel.
7 The United States agrees to protect the new State from any
incursion into the new state by Israel. The United
Nations Membership ( Not the Security Council ) by
majority vote will be the entity empowered to decide what
and how the incursion will be punished.
With those items in place, peace may be possible.
Will it happen? Not likely. -
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Daylight8 months ago
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1 If peace is signed and a two state solution agreed to, Israel will immediately withdraw from every last inch of the new Palestinian State territory.
You are joking, Zionists never give anything in return and they only take whatever belongs to others. All they do is find some excuse from the so called book of God. Israel will bow down the day America says enough is enough.-
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CHAM8 months ago
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Daylight. You mis-read . Notice I wrote that there were things "left unsaid" so precede each of the numbered sentences with the words "The peace accords must state that"
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I agree with your thinking, but re-read what I wrote.
For peace to be joined, those accords would need to be there- again what wrote was that these things were not mentioned in the article was about the speech that Netanyahu should promise in his speech.
Therefore I said these things were left unsaid in the article. So he must be willing to speak them and agree to them.
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Edmar148 months ago
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Daylight, you're a complete fool. Israel gave Egypt back the Sinai and withdrew all settlers. It gave Gaza back to the PA and withdrew it's settlers. Please tell us what the Arabs have given in return, or at any time for that matter. Muslims don't share. They don't share the Temple mount. They don't share equality in citizenship with non Muslims and they don't share their land although they expect every other country in the world to open their doors to them (Europe is a perfect example).
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Pecossam8 months ago
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gamahuche,
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The article reminded me of Neville Chamberlain's "Peace In Our Time" speech after he signed the "Munich Pact" with Hitler, from which I have provided a small excerpt:
"Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity."
Mr. Chamberlain on appeasement:
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/munich.html
"I can well understand the reasons why the Czech Government have felt unable to accept the terms which have been put before them in the German memorandum. Yet I believe after my talks with Herr Hitler that, if only time were allowed, it ought to be possible for the arrangements for transferring the territory that the Czech Government has agreed to give to Germany to be settled by agreement under conditions which would assure fair treatment to the population concerned. . . ."
"Chamberlain was forced to resign the premiership on 10 May 1940, after Germany invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and France. He was succeeded by Winston Churchill but remained very well regarded in Parliament. Before ill health forced him to resign, he was an important member of Churchill's War Cabinet. He had a key role in the formation of the Special Operations Executive. Chamberlain died of cancer six months after leaving the premiership."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain
So much for appeasement. Mr. Chamberlain was able to change his mind and was a great help to Mr. Churchill during the time Mr. Chamberlain had left to live. Perhaps it would behoove you to do the same and LEARN from history.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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lloydm658 months ago
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Cham, I didn't see very many requirements of the Palestinians.Surely we wouldn't impose a total cessation of terrorist activity,after all the hate in their hearts.The urge to kill children on school buses will be there long after the two state solution.The Clinton administration brokered a deal that gave the Palestinians ninety seven percent of what they ask for.We just wouldn't aid and abet them to drive the Israeli's into the Mediterranean.Until the children are taught
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to care for each other,and it becomes a universal law to ban suicide belts for children,we're just kicking a dead dog.Get a second opinion.you seemed to have chosen one side over the other,and it sounds a lot like a one state solution -
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