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Titolo: 'It's not enough'

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'It's not enough'
Nov. 26, 2009
, THE JERUSALEM POST
With the patience of a taxi driver at a red light about to turn green, 
the Palestinian leadership responded to Wednesday's announcement of an 
Israeli moratorium on new settlement building with: "It's not enough!"
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's unprecedented moratorium is both 
substantive and symbolic - the appropriate response to a Palestinian 
settlement freeze demand that is both emblematic and a red-herring.
THE DISPUTE between Palestinians and Israelis is not about settlements. 
It hinges on whether the Arabs are willing to recognize the legitimacy 
of Israel as the state of the Jewish people within any boundaries. Some 
find it convenient to imagine that the clash between the Zionist and 
Arab causes has transitioned to a non-zero sum game. That is hardly the 
dominant view in Israel.
In 1920, the international community gave Britain the responsibility of 
establishing a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. But a 
year later London turned over eastern Palestine to Emir Abdullah and 
Transjordan was born. The Arab response? "It's not enough."
In 1937, the Peel Commission recommended dividing Palestine into Jewish 
and Arab states. The Zionists consented. The Arabs... said no.
In 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into 
Jewish and Arab states. Again, the Jews agreed. The Arab response was: 
"It's not enough" and they tried to throttle the newborn Jewish state. 
Israel survived while the Arabs took the West Bank and Gaza. Did they 
then form a Palestinian state? Of course not, because these territories 
alone were "not enough."
In 1967, the Arabs failed to push an Israel living within the 1949 
Armistice Lines into the sea and the West Bank came into Israeli 
possession. Magnanimous in victory, Israel offered peace. The Arab 
response? "No peace, no recognition, no negotiations."
In 1977, Egypt's Anwar Sadat courageously embarked on the path of peace. 
Israel withdrew from all territory claimed by Egypt, and Menachem Begin, 
moreover, offered the Palestinians something they had never enjoyed - 
autonomy. Israeli forces would have been re-deployed as a prelude to 
final status negotiations. The Arab response? "It's not enough."
As a result of the 1993 Oslo Accords, the PLO leadership was invited to 
return from Tunis and set up a Palestinian Authority in the West Bank 
and Gaza. But a double-dealing Yasser Arafat never genuinely embraced 
this historic opportunity for reconciliation. Hamas intensified its 
terror campaign which claimed dozens of Israeli lives (well before the 
Baruch Goldstein Hebron massacre in February 1994). Ehud Barak twice - 
at Camp David (July 2000) and at Taba (January 2001) - offered Arafat a 
Palestinian state accompanied by extraordinary territorial and political 
concessions. The Arab response? "It's not enough."
When Israel unilaterally pulled its settlers and soldiers out of the 
Gaza Strip in 2005, the Arabs again said: "It's not enough."
In 2008, Ehud Olmert offered Mahmoud Abbas 93 percent of the West Bank, 
plus additional territory from Israel proper. Abbas did not even deign 
to say "It's not enough" - he just walked away.
Then in June of this year Netanyahu, following in the footsteps of his 
predecessors, unequivocally accepted a demilitarized Palestinian state. 
The Arab response? "It's not enough."
Generation after generation, decade after decade, Israeli concession 
after concession, the Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to 
say, "It's not enough."
SO now the question is what will America do? Special Envoy George 
Mitchell reacted with sparing approval to Netanyahu's moratorium. "It 
falls short of a full settlement freeze, but it is more than any Israeli 
government has done before…" He then diluted this faint praise by coldly 
reiterating: "America does not accept the legitimacy of continued 
Israeli settlements."
A slightly more positive reaction came from Secretary of State Clinton 
who acknowledged that "agreed swaps" should be part of negotiations 
based on the 1967 lines.
To take additional risks for peace, Israelis must feel secure that the 
Obama administration wholly backs the 1967-plus formula. Washington 
needs to cajole Mahmoud Abbas back to the table to bargain in good 
faith, and it should extract diplomatic gestures from its Arab allies in 
reciprocity for the premier's concessions.
Otherwise, the discouraging message that comes across to Israelis who 
want an agreement is that no matter what we do it will always "fall 
short" with this administration and never be "enough" for the Arabs.

 Israeli moratorium on new settlement building with: "It's not enough!"
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Ho notato che in tutti gli scritti che posta nahum, quando si parla
delle nazioni unite non si parla mai di tutte le risoluzioni che non
vengono osservate.
Sar� un problema di religione?

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#_In un momento di lucidita`e conoscenza cosmica che arriva un istante prima 
della morte...se ne accorgera`!
...C'e`scritto ...anche nel calendario Maya