Bibi’s endgame? A castrated Palestinian state

by on July 4, 2009 8

The other day Ira Glunts did a fine post here saying that Israel has little interest in the peace process, and that Netanyahu is just playing intransigent foot-dragging tricks with Obama over a semi-fake issue, freezing settlements. I asked Glunts: "What's Israel's endgame, to have the status quo forever? No real Palestinian state?" Glunts:
 I come up with these strategies:
1. Sticking with the status-quo, keep building settlements and pass the problems to the next guy. This is a lot more appealing than it was in the 90s for the Israelis.
2. Unilateral action. (They would call it unilateral withdrawal.) This plan would set up an "autonomy" in the Palestinian populated areas. Sharon, supposedly, planned on doing this. His plan is said to have annexed 45% of the West Bank. I think Olmert had this in mind when he proposed the hitkansoot. Bibi may have been thinking along these lines when he talked about Palestinian economic independence.
3. Negotiate a settlement which gives the Palestinians a state in name, but is really an autonomy. No control over borders, or airspace, demilitarized, limited foreign treaties, limited rights to water resources, etc. My guess is that, at this point, the Israelis who might have wanted to do this do not trust Mitchell to go along.
But if the negotiations do go forward, I think a castrated state will be the Israeli goal. One thing that makes the status quo option so appealing is that the government would not have to relocate many if any settlers, which I think will be a bigger problem than many assume.

About Ira Glunts

Ira Glunts is a college librarian and bookseller who lives in Madison, NY.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, US Politics

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  1. Craig11 says:
    July 4, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    It's been obvious for some time that the Israelis envision a "Palestinian state" as something approximate to an Indian reservation in the US — actually a set of them, physically disconnected. The other word people use for this is "bantustan," for all intents and purposes the South African equivalent. I think the Israelis' evident fondness for maintaining the status quo by dragging out the peace process interminably has something to do with their awareness that the bantustan model won't be acceptable to the Palestinians or to the international community. So there is really very little they can do as long as they refuse to modernize the badly-outdated racist view of the world that is the real core of the problem.

  2. Joe America says:
    July 4, 2009 at 9:11 pm

    To continue Bibi's plan: once the Palestinian concentration camps are formally declared a "state" the plan will be to slowly whittle their population down to zero, by starving them, expelling them, and making conditions so miserable that they leave. The end-game is a Jewish Nazi Final Solution, carried out in slow motion.

  3. Citizen says:
    July 4, 2009 at 9:41 pm

    The slow process delineated by Craig11 and Joe America is the only thing any Israeli regime will implement and is implementing, and has been for decades. I would add only that getting the US involved with attacking Iran would speed up the process, thus in the Israeli mind, killing two goy birds with one goy financed stone. When one tries to figure out what is Israel thinking, one need go no farther than the Israeli and Jewish diaspora end game: Jewish continuity. This means ultimately Jews rule or Jews take down the Samson columns of the world. It's always a zero sum game. Gentiles just don't believe this can be true. They should look at world history. Who has survived as an intact people no matter where they live? With no higher allegiance?

  4. JoachimMartillo says:
    July 4, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    The blog entry explains why it is so important to anti-Zionists and to the salvation of America for Iranians to develop a nuclear bomb as an important milestone in crushing Jewish Zionist power in the USA and throughout the world: Real Issue of Nuclear Iran.

  5. ismail says:
    July 5, 2009 at 2:12 am

    It will be a milestone when that bomb is rammed up Joachim's nazi ass.

  6. Strahl says:
    July 5, 2009 at 7:17 am

    The only people in the world who are TRUE Nazis, are the ones who butcher children, steal land, steal water, bulldoze peoples' homes, occupy their land, lie over and over again – WHILE simultaneously playing the victims. Tribal Jews and Zionists are the real Nazis. Iran has not started a war with another country in over 200 years. Israel is only a 'Jewish State' because those fascist pigs kicked out 800K Palestinians and refused them their right of return. When Israel is dismantled as a Jewish State (Democracy for Jews and Jewish for Palestinians) – then we'll be one step closer to peace in the ME. Fuck Zionism.

  7. Citizen says:
    July 5, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    Israel end game is castrated Palestinian state–and a less competitive Iran for local hegemony; Saudi Arabia has agreed to look the other way when Israeli jets fly over its airspace to bomb Iran: http://ow.ly/gwHa

  8. Thom says:
    July 7, 2009 at 1:32 am

    Iran has committed innumerable acts of war. They invaded sovereign U.S. territory and kidnapped American embassy workers. They support terrorism throughout the world. The Israelis have never started a war.

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