Let 100 checkpoints bloom! The Israeli government doesn’t just think the status quo is sustainable, it boasts about destroying the peace process:
Israel’s Defense Minister boasts today, “We’ve succeeded in taking [peace] negotiations off the agenda” https://t.co/oN1dWdw4Ty #Ally
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) June 10, 2014
Blumenthal links to Allyn Fisher-Ilan, the Thomson Reuters reporter covering the Herzliya conference in Israel for that report on the gentleman pictured above.
Here’s more, from Ynet, “Hawks question need for peace with Palestinians”:
“There is no basis to the perception that the status quo is a bad thing,” said Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar, echoing a stance on relations with the Palestinians that seems to be gaining traction among Israeli politicians, if to judge from speeches made at the 14th annual Herzliya Conference which opened Sunday at the IDC.
Sa’ar wasn’t the only official at the conference to voice a favorable opinion of allowing the two state solution to depart from modern day policy, with a reserve IDF general even going as far as saying that peace with the Palestinians is no longer in Israel’s interest.
And J Street is getting in step with the new reality. Larry Derfner reports at the Forward:
What is J Street doing? Why has it begun to act in concert with unambiguously right-wing Zionist organizations such as AIPAC and StandWithUs in their efforts to kill the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement while offering no alternative for ending the occupation?
Because the truth is that J Street offers no alternative anymore; now that John Kerry’s talks have failed, and all the secretary of state has to show for them is a footprint on the seat of his pants courtesy of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, America is through trying to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. And everybody seems to acknowledge this except J Street. Which is not a surprise, because without America in the peace process, J Street’s reason for being is gone…
this is the sort of company J Street keeps these days in the only meaningful action it’s involved in anymore: fighting BDS.
All points here provided by Blumenthal.
All (local) politics is local. Israeli pols say that there is no down-side to end of negotiations for 2SS. No down-side from Israel or from Palestine. Sure.
But could be the EU will tire of this Israeli smirkiness and show there is a down-side by creating one,. And ICC. And maybe other things. (Unless PLO’s hands are tied, as the leaders may well suppose they are. Note the submersion of Hamas.)
and this is the side were told wants peace
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J Street is what is called a Trojan Horse. It has been designed by AIPAC and the Israeli Government to lure liberal or progressive Jews (who despaired of AIPAC) into an organization that would keep them closely corralled and still under the control of AIPAC. That way they could belong to the J Street liberal Zionist cartel and feel that they were more liberal than AIPAC but actually they would still be under AIPAC’s control and would never get the chance to support BDS or anything else that is not in AIPAC’s strategic plan. J Street is what is called in modern parlance “a joke”.
J Street in my judgment is quite wrong to think attacking BDS movement is doing Israel a good service.