An Uncanny Statement From Benjamin Netanyahu

[Wakeymedia]

I wonder if Benjamin gets the irony of what he says here? . . . Probably.


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[TonyGosling]

Netanyahu is in London again trying his best to drag this nation into his apartheid expansion plans.
Peace plans come and go. Obama may have to try a wholly new approach
Unless talks address the core, existential issues of 1948, optimism about a new Middle East effort is likely to fade fast
.....Perhaps successive efforts at peace have failed because they have ducked the core, existential questions, the issues of 1948. Maybe a true peace will only come when it confronts the hardest issues: on one side, the dispossession of the Palestinians, forced to become a refugee nation; and on the other, the urge which led to Israel's creation, the Jews' desire after two millennia in exile to live in a state of their own.
This will require an entirely new approach. Not a reliance solely on mechanistic formulas, land swaps and compensation packages, but a deep, even emotional engagement with the sources of the conflict. It will mean Israelis finally acknowledging the plight of the refugees created by the birth of the state of Israel, and Palestinians finally deciding whether they can accept a Jewish state. That last move will have to be done without jeopardising the place of those Palestinians who live inside Israel as citizens, or asking Palestinians to reject the entire narrative of their recent history. But something like it will have to be done.
Peace has not remained out of reach because the peacemakers did not try hard enough or because the moment was not ripe. Peace may have stayed out of reach because for too long we refused to confront the true causes of this war.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/25/israel-palestinian -obama-peace-us