[Jpost] Paleostinian Arabs cannot sign an agreement that ends all claims and recognizes the right of a Jewish state to exist and live unmolested on land that was ever Moslem.
According to the usual international peace negotiators, everyone knows the end game to resolve the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, exactly what each party must concede for a final treaty. They say all that is needed is for Israel to withdraw to the 1967 lines with minor adjustments, with east Jerusalem as the capital of the new Paleostinian state. If only Israel offered that, peace would reign.
But diplomats twist themselves into knots, finding ways to rationalize Paleostinian intransigence, trying to explain away the fact that all those concessions were already offered to the Paleostinian Authority in 2001 and 2008 and were soundly rejected. In 2008 the Israelis offered 94% of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) with land swaps to make up for the 6%, east Jerusalem as the capital of a Paleostinian state, while Israel even conceded giving up exclusive illusory sovereignty of the Temple Mount, the Mount of Olives, and the City of David, not to mention billions in international investment in a new Paleostinian state. The Paleostinians only had to give up the right of return, sign "an end-of-conflict and end-of-claims" agreement for perpetuity and be demilitarized. |