[Pen-l] two state solution

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

from SLATE: >The LA [TIMES] , [Wall Street Journal], and NY [Times]
front a speech yesterday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
in which he, for the first time, said he would support the idea of a
Palestinian state. It was supposed to signal that his government is
open to compromise, but Netanyahu put so many conditions on what kind
of Palestinian state would be acceptable that Palestinian leaders
immediately dismissed his supposed concession as mere theatrics.
Indeed, the WSJ notes that Netanyahu's words "don't mark a big shift
in Israeli policy, because previous prime ministers have supported
Palestinian statehood." Netanyahu also added that a Palestinian state
can't have its own military and needs to recognize Israel as a Jewish
state that has Jerusalem as its capital. He also rejected calls from
the White House to freeze settlement growth in the West Bank. Despite
these caveats, the LAT says Netanyahu's remarks still "marked a
watershed" considering that he had previously "spent more than two
decades in public life rejecting a 'two-state solution.' "<

a state without a military? an externally-imposed Costa Rica? or a
bantustan? I'm glad that "Bibi" seems to have forgotten the idea of
having all Palestinians wear electronic ankle bracelets.

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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