Thursday, May 19, 2011

Prime Minister Netanyahu is not the man to convince regarding Israel's borders in relation to Palestine.

The Knesset is.  The 1967 borders will never be accepted by the Knesset.

...“Barack Hussein Obama adopted Yasser Arafat’s staged plan for Israel’s destruction, (click title to entry - thank you)  and he is trying to force it on our prime minister,” Likud MK Danny Danon said. “All that was new in the speech was that he called for Israel to return to 1967 borders without solving the crisis. Netanyahu has only one option: Tell Obama to forget about it.”

Environment Minister Gilad Erdan, also from the Likud, who as a minister close to Netanyahu must be more diplomatic, said on Channel 2 that according to Obama’s approach, the Palestinians would receive what they were demanding on borders before negotiations begin.

“Once they have everything from the start, they have no reason to make any concessions,” Erdan said....


...Obama is right when he says ''too many leaders in the region tried to direct their people's grievances elsewhere,'' towards the West or Israel. The protesters have rejected of that type of exploitation. This has been a movement to rid the shackles of repression — not a complaint about US foreign policy....


In all honesty, the Israeli Knesset has a right to demand 'reparations' from the Arab Nations in regard to "The Six Day War."  Blood was spilled and Israel will never allow the deaths of those soldiers to be nullified.  Therefore, the borders previous to that war is sincerely null and void.

The Six-Day War ended at 1630 GMT on June 10, 1967 when a cease-fire became effective on the Israel-Syrian front. Israel’s casualties amounted to 759 dead and about 3,000 wounded. Arab casualties were never officially tallied, but are believed to be about 15,000. Israel had avoided the threat to its very existence, but also remembered well that there was no peace after the victory in 1948-49. Therefore,Israel was determined to hold the new cease-fire lines until a permanent peace was established.

As much as President Obama wants Palestine to have their own state, to demand the 1967 borders be put back in place is not realistic.  With all due respect to everyone.
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