BBC: Israel sets terms for Palestinian state
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced he will back a Palestinian state – but only if it is completely demilitarised.
He said a Palestinian state must have no army, no control of its air space and no way of smuggling in weapons.
I’ve been wanting to write more about the current Israeli-Palestinian-US impasse, but fresh (and unexpected) developments have come hard and fast. Bibi’s latest speech, for example, shows how desperate he has become.
By imposing ridiculous conditions on the creation of a Palestinian state, he intends his peace overtures to be rejected, and proceed to put the blame of the failure of peace talks on the Palestinians.
In this new era of straight-talking, however, it’s not likely that his schemes will bear fruit. The Israeli-Palestinian issue has been thrown into clear relief, and everyone knows the stakes.
Bibi, you either want peace or you do not. It cannot get any simpler than that.
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