According to the Telegraph, Netanyahu hopes to kick the Palestinian state can down the road by as much as 30 years.
Mr Netanyahu is reportedly hoping that the agreements reached under an accord would be phased in stage-by-stage over as much as 30 years.
Israel reportedly hopes that a protracted timetable would test the viability of a peace deal by gradually building confidence that its security needs would be met even as it withdrew from territory that would become part of a Palestinian state.
But Israel's withdrawal from Sinai was completed within 36 months. So does Bibi want the glory of reaching a deal, but none of the heat of actually implementing it? Or, is this a way to inject a poison pill to make a deal unworkable?
“So does Bibi want the glory of reaching a deal, but none of the heat of actually implementing it? Or, is this a way to inject a poison pill to make a deal unworkable?”
DUUH!
Like, Hellooo?
He wants both. He wants to be able to say a deal has been reached, and for all the Zionists to know that it will never happen. After thirty years of settlements, the Zionists will have driven out all the Palestinians.
That doesn’t just describe Netanyahu’s attitude, but Obama’s as well. This is basically “Obamacare” for the Middle East.
“That doesn’t just describe Netanyahu’s attitude, but Obama’s as well. This is basically “Obamacare” for the Middle East.”
Which explain why Witty is such a huge fan of Obama’s approach.
>> After thirty years of settlements, the Zionists will have driven out all the Palestinians.
And no Palestinians will be left alive who will qualify for the Zionist-approved version of a “right of return”.
Obama and Clinton hope Netanyahu will finally decide on which tiny piece of Palestine stolen by Israel will be returned to the victim of the 1967 mugging. At long last both the US and Israel will finally have an acceptable “piece treaty.”
Hey come on you guys, what’s thirty years between close enemies?
By making withdrawal contingent on Israel’s “security needs” he is certain to be able to find an excuse to fail to fulfill Israel’s obligations. Just the way they did with the Oslo agreement.
Wishing Obama would make withdrawal compulsory based on Palestinians “security needs”. It just sickens me to hear him and Hillary speak about the security needs of the nation that commits mass murderers.
“Israel reportedly hopes that a protracted timetable would test the viability of a peace deal by gradually building confidence that its security needs would be met….”
“…building confidence that its security needs would be met….” It is difficult to read crap like this without vomiting. The fourth most powerful military in the world facing a more or less defenseless population has legitimate security needs? Do the more or less defenseless Palestinians facing the fourth most powerful military that has committed ongoing mass-murder and other atrocities against them have any “security needs?” The fact that Israel can frame the issue as revolving around their security needs is outrageous!
Was that a rhetorical question?
Bibi wants to set aside what he considers to be a pesky peace process so that he can have more wiggle room to expand colonies, evict Palestinians and erase whatever is left of Palestinian resistance.
That’s what the Oslo accords were. They were a form of containment and pacification.
So, consider this proposal to be Oslo II.
In the end, the only solution will be either (a) The BDS movement will gain enough support to become too costly for Israel to tolerate. (b) A regional war in the Middle East will result in a reshuffling of the power structure. In the process, Israel will hopefully get taught a lesson as Professor Finkelstein has said.
I honestly don’t know what the endgame is, for Bibi or any other Israeli politician. Sure they’ve managed to string out the occupation for 43 years, but even they must recognize it cannot last forever. Is it simply a matter of inertia, no pressing need to change the status quo, and impossible to decide where to go? It could be, and if so, they really need someone from the outside to dictate terms. There’s only one candidate for that, and with US politics as incapable of movement as Israel, there is no push coming from that direction. BDS may be in relative infancy, but it looks like popular world opinion will have to take the lead and force the situation.
Pretty soon the United States will be irrelevant. The sort of economic trouble we’re still looking at facing is going to make the term “double dip recession” look pale.
Bibi just doesn’t want his ass thrown into the World Court for war-crimes during his lifetime because he knows he’s a monster
>> After thirty years of settlements, the Zionists will have driven out all the Palestinians.
Maybe by then all of Israel’s Jewish population will have moved to the West Bank and the Palestinians can settle what is now Israel.
I wonder what the 30 year figure is based on? Why not 50 years or 5 years or 1 year? Obama has said he wants a settlement in 1 year.
Perhaps Likudnik detractors of Obama are right, and he has a devilishly devious plan to break Israeli resistance to a sensible peace plan.
It has these ingredients:
a. making “freeze” a part of the “process”
b. lulling Natanyahu and his cabinet into complaisance
c. Netanyahu spews ideas so absurd that he becomes a laughing stock
d. Israeli loose PR war, some become morose and pliant, other cabinet members turn bellicose and improve the spectacle further
What comes next, I do not know. With luck, American-Israeli lobby will split along those lines.