Comments on: The palestinian dream https://www.yourish.com/2006/05/25/1317 Cutting straight to the point Thu, 25 May 2006 23:11:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Ben F https://www.yourish.com/2006/05/25/1317/comment-page-1#comment-8993 Thu, 25 May 2006 23:11:15 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/05/25/1317#comment-8993 On examination, the prisoners’ proposal makes demands on Israel (allow return of refugees, release political prisoners, end the “siege”) while conceding nothing, certainly not recognition of Israel, within the 1967 borders or otherwise. It calls for resistance against the post-1967 occupation, which contravenes the PLO’s many agreements to forswear violence in resolving its disputes with Israel.

The Arab position, under the prisoners’ platform no less than under Abdullah’s 2002 plan, is that the state of war persists until the Jews turn over the Temple Mount and the rest of the Old City, return to indefensible borders, and commit demographic suicide. It’s not peace for peace, or even land for peace. It’s Zionism for peace.

And the world hails this as evidence of moderation.

]]> By: Laurence Simon https://www.yourish.com/2006/05/25/1317/comment-page-1#comment-8962 Thu, 25 May 2006 15:05:49 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/05/25/1317#comment-8962 I think he means that they need to give up the dream of achieving the destruction of Israel in 1 step, instead relying on a two-step solution which the world will accept.

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