At last! Palestinians have Israel on the ropes

[Luc Hansen]

In occupied Palestine, Netanyahu is proudly parading his apparent victory over Obama in getting him to agree to Israel finishing off 3000 housing units in the West Bank before supposedly freezing future settlements.

To be honest, once Obama appointed Rahm Emmanuel as Chief of Staff, Palestinians should have given up any hope they held for Obama. But they got seduced by the Cairo speech for a little while.

But now poor old Bibi is crying foul over Palestinians refusing to negotiate in the absence of an immediate freeze. Oh dear, poor Bibi, being bullied by those Palis again!

Bibi, of course, ignores the fact that even as Israel was supposedly negotiating a peace deal (Oslo) with a view to allowing Palestinians a viable state, it was expanding settlements at an ever increasing rate. Palestinians now know that Israel would continue to use negotiations as a cover to expand settlements even more, with the ultimate aim of gradually forcing Palestinians to leave occupied Palestine altogether.

The problem for Israel is that, in the long term, this firm Palestinian policy is very, very ominous for Israel.

Why?

For too long Palestinians have been seduced by extremists who dream of military victory over Israel. This is just cuckoo land stuff, of course. As the settlements expand, the option of a viable Palestinian state whithers on the vines. This leaves only one option for Palestinians to pursue: the option of full citizenship in historic Palestine, from the river to the sea.

If instead of futile oversized firecrackers Palestinians harnessed the modern vision of human rights and self determination, especially by organising an alternative narrative in the US to AIPAC, their struggle could be over within a couple of decades.

And they will have Bibi to thank for it.

Israel, always the more powerful entity, has two choices. It can accept the inevitability of a unified Palestine, or it can, as Benny Morris suggested Ben Gurion should have done, “finish the job,” and drive the Palestinians across the river, into Egypt, or into the sea, and suffer the opprobrium.

It would be a big gamble.

[GABE1]

Luc:

I do not debate Holocaust denial or Antisemitic rewriting of history So I will just ignore your fairy tales.As to the shifting winds of your current historical fanciful retelling again you are ignorant of the facts.
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan(previously TransJordan) is a modern day creation of the British not unlike your country and mine and they predate Balestinians by only a few years.I believe that Israel would have a valid claim in a court of law(not in a kangaroo one)

So in the spirit of the League of nations Mandate for Palestine, is Jordan Palestine. I must give it a resounding YES

PS Israel settled all of the outstanding border issues with Jordan and legally the Balestinians have no standing in 242. Lets see if you can understand the legal ramifications of the Syrian Arabs aka Balestinians.