Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: The Israeli government is fooling you

Giusto: ma chi vogliono prendere per il culo?
Oltre al Quartetto, s'intende, che deve farsi prendere per il culo in 
nome del politically correct.
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Published 03:01 10.10.11  Latest update 03:01 10.10.11
The Israeli government is fooling you
By Akiva Eldar
Did you know that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just welcomed a 
diplomatic plan that posits the borders of June 4, 1967, as a basis for 
negotiations with the Palestinians, along with mutual and consensual 
territorial exchanges? Did you hear that Foreign Minister Avigdor 
Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) welcomed the demand to freeze construction 
beyond the Green Line entirely, including in East Jerusalem? Were you 
told that Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud) welcomes the 
demand for the immediate dismantling of all the outposts built in the 
past decade? Has anyone told you that Ministers Eli Yishai (Shas) and 
Daniel Hershkowitz (Habayit Hayehudi) have given their blessing to 
negotiations on the status of the holy places in our united capital?
And that's not all. All the leaders of the coalition, without exception, 
have just now informed the entire world, and the entire Jewish people of 
course, that they recognize the importance of the Arab peace initiative, 
which offers Israel normalization in return for withdrawal from all the 
territories, including the Golan Heights, and a fair and consensual 
solution of the refugee problem, on the basis of UN General Assembly 
Resolution 194.
No, this is not the end-of-days vision of a delusionary defeatist. The 
exciting news is taken from the Israeli government website and from the 
official declaration of the Quartet from September 23. The website says 
that "Israel welcomes the call by the international Quartet to conduct 
preliminary, unconditional and direct negotiations with the Palestinian 
Authority," and that it will raise its reservations during the course of 
the negotiations.
Let us examine what was said in that "call" that Israel "welcomed." Such 
an examination is apparently essential, since even Prof. Shlomo Avineri 
failed to get to the bottom of the "welcome" for the Quartet's 
declaration. Otherwise, he would not have presented the Quartet's plan 
as a "diplomatic achievement for Israel," which exposes the Palestinians 
as the "recalcitrant party" ("No realistic chance of permanent Middle 
East peace" - Haaretz, October 5 ).
The Quartet's declaration does indeed call on the parties to renew 
negotiations without preconditions - without preconditions, but with 
clear sources of authority, based on a series of declarations, decisions 
and international agreements. First, it says there that the Quartet 
ratifies its decision of May 20 this year, which includes clear support 
of the vision of peace presented by U.S. President Barack Obama. This is 
the decision that adopted Obama's May 19 speech, in which he called for 
the renewal of negotiations on the basis of the 1967 borders, with 
mutual and consensual territorial swaps.
Later, the Quartet's "welcomed" announcement says that the international 
foursome confirms its determination to reach an overall solution to the 
Arab-Israeli conflict, based on a series of UN Security Council 
resolutions. One of them - Resolution 1515 of November 2003 - adopted 
(and not only "welcomed") the Road Map peace plan.
We can assume that MK Benny Begin (Likud), who makes sure to read and 
warn about every dubious word in the speeches of Palestinian President 
Mahmoud Abbas, reminded his friends in the so-called forum of eight 
senior ministers that in the Road Map, Israel promised to freeze the 
settlements entirely, to dismantle the outposts, and to reopen the 
Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem - and all this on the way to 
an agreement that will end the occupation that began in 1967 and realize 
the two-state vision.
We are therefore left with the question: Who are they fooling? Coalition 
chairman Ze'ev Elkin, who declared that Jordan is Palestine, and MK 
Danny Danon (Likud), who declared that there is no room for two states 
between the sea and the Jordan? Or perhaps they are misleading U.S. 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and European Union foreign policy 
chief Catherine Ashton, who signed the Quartet's declaration?
If the members of the forum of eight have undergone a dramatic 
ideological upheaval, is it possible that they didn't tell the Knesset 
or, unfortunately, the government plenum? Perhaps they relied on the 
fact that the Palestinians would do the dirty work for them and reject 
the outline on the threshold of the negotiating room. After all, there 
are people who have already decided that the story is over and are 
accusing the Palestinians of causing the plan to fail.
Fortunately, Abbas announced to the European Council last Thursday the 
"positive stance" of the Palestinians regarding the Quartet's 
announcement. We can only hope that the Quartet will finally force 
Netanyahu to put his cards on the table.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-israeli-government-is-fooling-you-1.389071?localLinksEnabled=false
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Il 10/10/11 23:52, נחום ha scritto:
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Adesso Persio è passato a ritagliare compulsivamente cazzate 
filopalestinesi dalla stampa israeliana. E non ce n'è penuria.
Perlomeno, a me appaiono delle cazzate anche poco fattualmente 
sostenibili (come questa). Però hanno senz'altro un pregio: mostrare 
quale grado di libertà, anche di sparare cazzate antigovernative, 
anti-integraliste, spesso addirittura antisioniste mostri la stampa 
"sionista".
Eppure non mi sembra che Persio abbia fatto notare al Caro Pubblico il 
cambio d'aria rispetto al triste panorama di regime integralista e 
razzista che emergeva dalla stampa iraniana che ha opincollato in questi 
giorni.
Non l'ha fatto, probabilmente, perché Persio è un pirla.
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Dead men may not talk, but they also don't lie.  [Chuck Hawks]