[Marxism] Israel's conditions for "peace"

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Borders  
A Palestinian "state" would be announced on a series of non-contiguous  
truncated Bantustan-like cantons comprising something less than 50% of the West 
 
Bank plus Gaza. Israel might, with great fanfare, charitably "adjust" very  
slightly the current route of the Apartheid Wall to seize slightly less land  
than 
the current route (which Israeli Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni earlier  
announced would be the basis for any border). All of the West Bank's major 
water  
aquifers will remain on the Israeli side of the Wall.  

Settlements 
All the major West  Bank settlement blocs would remain intact on the Israeli 
side of the Wall,  leaving between 180,000 and 200,000 of the current 250,000 
West Bank settlers in  place. With great fanfare most of the 105 small 
symbolic "outpost" settlements  constructed since 2001, which together house 
only 
about 2000 settlers, will be  dismantled.The entire Jordan Valley would remain 
in 
Israeli hands. In exchange,  Palestinians would be offered a "land swap" 
which would almost certainly involve  a significantly smaller amount of land, 
of 
far less arability and  viability. 

Refugees 
The  Palestinian right of return, codified not only in general international 
law but  specifically in UN resolution 194 (1949), has already been officially 
rejected  by Israel but also by the United States, in the Bush-Sharon letter 
exchange of  April 2004. Israel's Annapolis agenda plans to reassert that 
rejection though a  demand that the Palestinians accept language recognizing 
the 
"Jewish character"  of Israel, or accepting the definition of Israel as "the 
state of the Jewish  people" as opposed to a state of its own citizens. So far 
Palestinian officials  have indicated they will not accept that language, which 
Israeli Prime Minister  Olmert says is a precondition to any negotiations. 
The rejection of the right of  return will be further entrenched by an Israeli 
"offer" to Palestinian refugees  the privilege of "returning" to the erstwhile 
new "Palestinian state," rather  than the right to return to their actual home 
territory inside what is now  Israel. 

Jerusalem 
International law (UN Security  Council resolution 181, which divided 
Palestine into what was supposed to become  a Jewish and an Arab state) calls 
for 
Jerusalem to belong to neither state, but  rather to be a "separate body" under 
international jurisdiction. Virtually no  governments (not even the U.S.) 
recognize Israel's annexation of occupied Arab  East Jerusalem, and numerous UN 
resolutions have reaffirmed that East Jerusalem  is occupied territory. The 
Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem (known as  neighborhoods, not 
settlements) 
include over 200,000 Israeli settlers, and they  will remain in Israeli hands. 
The Israeli position in Annapolis will call for  continuing Israeli control of 
all of Jerusalem, with some kind of  Israeli-controlled "autonomy" for 
Palestinian neighborhoods and parts of the Old  City's Muslim shrines.
 
 
 
full article -
<_http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3800_ 
(http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3800) >



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