According to Abed Rabbo [secretary of the PLO Executive Committee], the US Secretary of State's proposal includes Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state; establishing part of East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine; resolving the refugee problem in accordance with the vision of former US President Bill Clinton; maintaining Israeli control of major settlement blocs and leasing the others back to Israel; Israel's control over border crossings and air space; and the presence of US-Israel-Jordan-Palestinian security forces on the border. "The Israelis would also have the right of 'hot pursuit' of fugitives or suspected criminals in the Palestinian state," he revealed. "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected these ideas because he wants to carve out the land he wants and refuses to discuss the Jerusalem issue. He also refuses the intervention of any other party in security matters, even America." (PLO official reveals full details of Kerry's plan; From Middle East Monitor, Translated from Safa; 1/26/14 13:42)
The Middle East Monitor writes through the filter of being Pro-Palestinian. You will notice the Pro-Palestinian bent if you happen to read the entire news report on Abed Rabbo’s disclosure. Typically the Palestinians intend to reject Kerry’s Plan because of minor details of having to recognize Israel as a Jewish State. AND that works for me because there is NO WAY Israel should give up its heritage of the entire city of Jerusalem especially the eastern half in which the Temple Mount is located. If the Palestinians shockingly gave up their nitpicking and accept the Kerry Plan for a Two-State Solution then Israel’s concurrence would not only mean treason to Jew heritage but also set the framework for the Jewish State’s demise through indefensible borders.
Justin O. Smith lays out the Antisemitism involved in shoving the Kerry Plan down the throat of the Jewish State of Israel.
JRH 2/10/14
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A Mockery of Peace
By Justin O. Smith
Sent: 2/9/2014 1:11 PM
Israel gives the world no peace, it bars slumber, it teaches the world to be discontented and restless as long as the world has not God. -Jacques Maritain
The modern racism, which yearned to eliminate Jews from society as a gardener would root out weeds, the sort of racism that allowed pogroms to flourish across Russia and Europe in the 1890s and culminated in the death camps of the 1940s in Nazi Germany, is on the rise once more in Europe and America, with U.S. president Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry leading the way. In an overt act of anti-Semitism, Kerry recently remarked in the affirmative and in agreement with several European leaders that boycotts and sanctions against Israel may be needed to force Israel to accept the Kerry Plan for "peace" and a two state solution, as if Israel does not want peace and the Palestinians' claims in the area are not specious and false.
While the Kerry Plan does call for the Palestinians to recognize the right of Israel to exist as the state of the Jewish people, two of its main points certainly must be non-starters for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel is to withdraw from the West Bank to the 1967 borders, and East Jerusalem will become the Palestinian capital.
Since the land of Israel in 1948 accounted for less than a fourth of the land originally designated "Palestine," and Jordan, an Islamic/Palestinian state that forbids Jews settlement rights by law, was carved out of the Palestinian "Jewish National Home," how can the Arabs be said to have been excluded from a "Palestinian homeland"?
Just how much land will Israel have to relinquish in order to achieve real peace? All of it according to Yasir Arafat, former head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, when he spoke with world renown journalist Oriana Fallaci in Amman, Jordan in March 1972.
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and head of the Fatah Party recently proposed an old NATO security proposal for the area that was favored by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former U.S. President George W. Bush. Abbas will accept a U.S. led NATO and Jordanian force into the Palestinian state indefinitely to prevent the sort of terrorism that occurred after Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2004. Abbas also allows that a "third party" can stay in the newly demilitarized West Bank "for a long time...to reassure the Israelis and to protect us" (the Palestinians).
No, this plan should not offer Israel any comfort. Abbas and the Palestinians will be the only winners, gaining their new state. Israel's national security will be compromised, as they attempt to defend a barely defensible position from behind the 1967 borders. This places Israel at a severe disadvantage from the start, should any new conflict arise. With NATO's ability to ensure any real security suspect at best, for Israel, it is like starting a chess game without one's queen.
Many so-called experts are discussing this framework agreement, as though it is a morally superior endeavor to all previous peace talks. However, whether we speak of the 1915 Sykes-Picot Agreement, the 1917 Balfour Treaty, the 1922 British Mandate and through each successive agreement to the Kerry Plan, most of the world has sought to undermine the State of Israel, while proclaiming otherwise. And now, the U.S. government too is undermining Israel, America's long-time ally.
Netanyahu does not trust the Palestinians to negotiate honestly, as he stated recently: "I do not want a binational state. But we also don't want another state that will start attacking us." And, intuitively, Netanyahu rightly does not trust Obama and Kerry, as was evident three weeks ago when he said, "Israel does not have to agree with everything America presents."
The peace talks, scheduled to end April 29, nearly ended prematurely, when the Israelis announced on January 10, 2014 that they intended to build 1400 housing units in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. Saeb Erekat, Palestinian chief negotiator, was highly upset, but Erekat and all involved in this framework agreement process understood that settlement construction would continue full force during negotiations.
Although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political base opposes the Kerry Plan, Netanyahu sees a two state solution of some sort, as necessary for Israel's integrity as a Jewish democratic state, with healthy ties to Europe and the West for the sake of Israel's economy. In this light, John Kerry's coercion and economic blackmail are especially egregious, despicable and unnecessary; Kerry has damaged any future peace process, harmed Israel and damaged U.S.-Israeli diplomatic relations, but many Americans did not expect anything less from a man of such low character.
Once one reviews the historical record and understands that the British gave away Jewish land to the landless Arab/Muslims who were displaced by Islamic feudal practices and extortionate taxation, not by the Jews, and, in conjunction one reads various quotes from decades past, one realizes anti-Semitism never goes away; it just becomes more glib: "The greatest contemporary hero (in the Muslim world) is Hitler." - John Gunther, 'Inside Asia', 1939; in 1974, Syrian PLO leader, Zuheir Muhsein explained, "Our purpose...it (a Palestinian state) will be a point of departure...This State will be the backbone of our struggle against Israel." This mindset prevails today across the Middle East.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands against diplomatic storms that threaten to annihilate Israel eventually - God forbid - and liberal Jews in Israel's Labor Party and in America who are advocating the Kerry Plan are making Israel's situation tragic and unbearable. Bibi Netanyahu must reject outright this plan and Kerry and Obama, with all their bias towards the Palestinians, as Israel seeks new allies and economic partners; Bibi must reject Oslo and all previous accords. He must find the political will and support to annex Gaza and the West Bank, as he proceeds with a forced removal/repatriation of the Palestinians to Jordan or the rest of the Arab world. The world uttered not a peep when this was done to 2 million Russians, against their will, under the Marshall Plan after WWII, but listen to the outcry when this proves necessary for Israel. And, if the tragedy of Bethlehem under Palestinian control is any indication of things to come, at the very least, Jerusalem must always stay united and complete as the proper capital of Israel. All of this is preferable to a sham "peace" agreement that only serves Israel's enemies.
Genesis 12:2 - I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
© Justin O. Smith
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