Really? A dictator didn’t honor international protocoal? Shocked. I’m shocked, I tell you, to hear that Ghaddafi sent his thugs to trash three NATO embassies after his son was killed by a NATO airstrike.
Two states for two people? No. What the media does not report: Cliff May recaps, but the MEMRI translation is here. The Palesteinians have not intention of living in peace with Israel. They want all of Israel, as I have said many times before. The reason the AP and other media services don’t report this? It goes against The Narrative. And The Narrative states that if only Israel would cease the occupation and bring forward the fictional statelets of East and West Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinians would be content. MEMRI calls bullshit on that.
“[The French initiative] reshaped the issue of the ‘Jewish state’ into a formula that is also unacceptable to us – two states for two peoples. They can describe Israel itself as a state for two peoples, but we will be a state for one people. The story of ‘two states for two peoples’ means that there will be a Jewish people over there and a Palestinian people here. We will never accept this – not as part of the French initiative and not as part of the American initiative.
“We will not sacrifice the 1.5 million Palestinians with Israeli citizenship who live within the 1948 borders, and we will never agree to a clause preventing the Palestinian refugees from returning to their country. We will not accept this, whether the initiative is French, American, or Czechoslovakian.” […]
Turkey, the sore loser: So apparently, if a UN report condemns Israel, it’s legitimate, but if it says Israel acted within international laws, it’s null and void. Turkey is downgrading ties with Israel over the refusal to apologize for killing nine members of the IHH who attacked IDF soldiers on the Mavi Marmara. And oh, what a biased report the AP has filed today. More on that later. Say, AP writers/editors who read my blog, just one question: Seriously? You couldn’t find a single Israeli official to quote on the record to balance out your all-Turkey, all-the-time report?
Excusing a murderer: Administration after administration coddled a terrorist/murderer, even after there was evidence that Arafat was responsible for the murder of American ambassadors. The Ha’aretz writer seems to think that this is going to make it difficult for Americans to lay a wreath on Arafat’s grave in the future. He doesn’t know our politicians very well.