Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to sing the very same
tune as all of the Jewish prime ministers before him. He claims that he
agrees with the two-state solution, but then he turns around and makes
pre-conditions for peace which he already knows the Palestinians will never
ever accept. What are these conditions? The very same conditions that every
Israeli PM before him has put forth:

1. Recognition of Israel as the Jewish homeland -- Even though the European
Jews were imported into Israel beginning in 1948.

2. An undivided Jerusalem as the capital of Israel -- Meaning that the
Palestinians can't have East Jerusalem for their capital.

3. No right of return for Arab refugees -- Meaning that they must be
absorbed in the new state of Palestine, or remain living in squalid
conditions in refugee camps in foreign countries.

4. The Palestinian state must have no military force -- What other nation of
the world doesn't have its OWN military force?

5. Israel will control the air space over Palestine -- What other nation of
the world doesn't control its own air space?

With ridiculous conditions like that, it is no wonder that Netanyahu can say
that he agrees with a two-state solution. He has covered all of the bets,
and he knows that a peace agreement will never happen.

Following is an article from cnsnews.com:


Netanyahu Lays Out Conditions for Palestinian State, Offers Obama History
Pointers

By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor - cnsnews.com

June 15, 2009


(CNSNews.com) - Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu can wait a
thousand years without finding a single Palestinian prepared to accept his
offer, a senior Palestinian negotiator said late Sunday after Netanyahu in a
policy speech laid down conditions under which Israel would accept a
Palestinian state.

The two key conditions, the conservative prime minister said, were
Palestinian recognition of Israel as the national homeland for the Jewish
people; and a requirement that a future Palestinian state would be
demilitarized.

Acceptance of a Palestinian state is a departure for Netanyahu. Speaking at
Bar Ilan University outside Tel Aviv, he made it clear that it came with red
lines.

On the first, Netanyahu said, refusal to recognize the Jewish people's right
to a state in their historical homeland was "the root of the conflict." The
"public, binding and sincere" acknowledgment by the Palestinians of that
right was therefore a "fundamental condition for ending the conflict."

On the second condition, Netanyahu said there was broad agreement in Israel
that a future Palestinian state could not be militarized.

"Without this condition, there is a real fear that there will be an armed
Palestinian state which will become a terrorist base against Israel, as
happened in Gaza," he said.

Such a state - "another Hamastan" - could makes military treaties with Iran
or Hezbollah and import weapons and missiles.

A Palestinian state could have no army, and no control over its airspace,
and effective measures would have to be put in place to prevent arms from
entering, Netanyahu said.

On two other key final status questions, he said Jerusalem would remain
Israel's unified capital, and Palestinian refugees could not be settled
within Israel's future borders. Netanyahu recalled that as the young and
"tiny" state of Israel had absorbed "hundreds of thousands of Jewish
refugees from Arab countries who were uprooted from their homes." The
problem of Arab refugees could similarly be solved, he said, implying that
the refugees could be accommodated in the Palestinian state and/or
neighboring Arab countries.

The Palestinian Authority wants at least the eastern portion of Jerusalem as
the capital of a future state; the "right of return" of Arabs who left what
is now Israel in 1948, and their descendants, is another key P.A. demand.

On the issue of Israelis living in disputed areas, Netanyahu pledged that no
new settlements would be built. But he pointedly did not agree that
construction would stop within existing ones - a matter of disagreement with
the Obama administration.

"There is a need to have people live normal lives and let mothers and
fathers raise their children like everyone in the world," he said. "The
settlers are not enemies of peace. They are our brothers and sisters."

More than 280,000 Israelis live in settlements in Judea-Samaria (the West
Bank). President Bush in a letter to the Israeli government in 2004
acknowledged that the final status borders of Israel would have to take into
account "new realities on the ground, including already existing major
Israeli population centers." The Obama administration has sidestepped the
question of whether it considers that and other assurances in the Bush
letter to be binding.

'This is the birthplace of the Jewish people'

Sunday's speech was viewed in Israel as a response to some of the points
made in President Obama's address to the "Muslim world," delivered in Cairo
early this month. Obama pressed the Israelis to accept a "two state
solution" to the conflict and said it was time for Jewish settlements to
"stop."

P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas' spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah said Netanyahu's
speech "torpedoes" peace initiatives, while P.A. negotiator Saeb Erekat
called it "deceiving," adding that the prime minister "can
wait one thousand
years to find one single Palestinian who accepts his plans mentioned in his
speech."

In remarks directed to Obama, Erekat said Netanyahu's speech was a slap in
the president's face.

"Netanyahu is challenging you and insists not stopping settlements or ending
the military occupation," he said. "President Obama, the ball is in your
court tonight."

The settlement issue is not the only one covered in Netanyahu's speech that
constituted a reproach to the administration.

Although the White House in a statement praised "the important step
forward"
in the speech - presumably Netanyahu's conditional endorsement of a future
Palestinian state - a close reading of the speech finds a number of gentle
ripostes.

In Cairo on June 4, Obama suggested that Jewish aspirations that led to the
establishment of Israel in 1948 were "rooted" in a "tragic
history" of
anti-Semitic persecution that culminated in the Holocaust.

While agreeing that the Holocaust showed why Jews needed a "protective
state," Netanyahu highlighted the 3,000 year-old Jewish connection to the
land of Israel.

"The right of the Jewish people to a state in the Land of Israel does not
arise from the series of disasters that befell the Jewish people over 2,000
years - persecutions, expulsions, pogroms, blood libels, murders, which
reached its climax in the Holocaust," he said. "The right to establish our
sovereign state here, in the Land of Israel, arises from one simple fact:
Eretz Israel is the birthplace of the Jewish people."

Israel's critics frequently argue that Europe assuaged its "guilt" over the
Nazi genocide by giving the survivors a homeland, at the expense of the Arab
inhabitants, and that that alone - rather than any historic or legal claim -
was the reason for the creation of Israel. Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, despite disputing the Holocaust, has suggested that the
Israelis be moved to Europe to make up for "injustice" Jews experienced
there.

Arab rejectionism

Obama also did not mention the fact that the establishment of Israel arose
out of a 1947 decision by the United Nations to divide the land between Jews
and Arabs. The Jews assented, declaring a state; the Arabs refused the deal,
and went to war.

Netanyahu filled in the gap.

"The entire Arab world rejected the [U.N.] proposal, while the Jewish
community accepted it with great rejoicing and dancing," he recounted. "The
Arabs refused any Jewish state whatsoever, with any borders whatsoever."

In Cairo, Obama echoed the widely-held view that the Israeli occupation of
the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 was the reason for Arab and Muslim enmity
towards Israel.

Netanyahu countered: "Whoever thinks that the continued hostility to Israel
is a result of our forces in Judea, Samaria and Gaza is confusing cause and
effect," he said. "The attacks on us began in the 1920s, became an overall
attack in 1948 when the state was declared, continued in the 1950s with the
fedayeen attacks, and reached their climax in 1967 on the eve of the Six-Day
War, with the attempt to strangle Israel.

"All this happened nearly 50 years before a single Israeli soldier went into
Judea and Samaria" in 1967, he said.

Elsewhere in the speech, Netanyahu praised Egypt and Jordan for signing
peace agreements with Israel and invited Israel's remaining neighbors to
join the "circle of peace," saying he was ready to travel to Syria, Lebanon
and Saudi Arabia to talk about and make peace.

He also challenged the Arabs to join Israel in promoting "economic peace" -
not as a substitute for peace, but as "a very important component in
achieving it: "Together we can advance projects that can overcome the
problems facing our region."


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