Danny Danon in his office Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel (Flash 90)
In an interview given to the Times of Israel on Wednesday (June 5) and reported the following day, Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon said what most already know: The current Israeli government will never implement a two-state solution.
There has never been any discussion within the government about the two-state solution:
‘Look at the government: there was never a government discussion, resolution or vote about the two-state solution,’ Danon said. ‘If you will bring it to a vote in the government — nobody will bring it to a vote, it’s not smart to do it — but if you bring it to a vote, you will see the majority of Likud ministers, along with the Jewish Home [party], will be against it.’
Netanyahu is not in favor of a two-state solution despite his claim that he supports it because:
… the prime minister tied the creation of a Palestinian state to conditions he is certain the Palestinians will not agree to. ‘He knows that in the near future it’s not possible.’
For good measure, Danon states that Israel will continue to build in East Jerusalem regardless of what the international community thinks.
Speaking about the international community’s routine condemnations of Israeli construction in East Jerusalem, Danon declared that the government can do whatever it pleases, wherever it pleases.
‘The international community can say whatever they want, and we can do whatever we want,’ he said.
The Times of Israel article mentioned a number of powerful members of the current government who “are staunchly opposed to a two state solution, advocating instead the partial or complete annexation of the West Bank to Israel.” They are: Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin, Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Deputy Knesset Speaker Moshe Feiglin, and coalition chairman Yariv Levin.
‘The international community can say whatever they want, and we can do whatever we want,’ he said.
Those who look on unchecked power as a something to be desired yearn for their own corruption and eventual destruction in disgrace. They are made first foolish, then much worse, by power.
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Anybody send Danon’s memo to Obama and Kerry? If so, watch how they grin through the shit on their face–and send Israel more cash while their own country is in sequestration, a walking bankrupt state of dupes.
Demographic trends mean that Israel can’t have it all. It can’t be a Jewish state, a democratic state, and a state in control of its whole historical land. It can only have two of its objectives at a time. Think of it this way: Israel can be Jewish and territorial — but not democratic. Or it can be democratic and territorial — but not Jewish. Or finally, it can be Jewish and democratic — but not territorial. This third choice is the one that can conceivably lead to a two-state solution. Excuse me but this Mr. Danon and the rest of his ilk are, my god, arrogant pricks. Not only that, they are self righteous, ignorant, stupid fools.
Ira, @- “Despite this reminder that the two-state solution is an illusion, there are still some that cling to the concept as “the only realistic option.” They include such diverse figures as Tzipi Livni, John Kerry, Jeremy Ben-Ami and Norman Finkelstein”.
Others include the whole of the International community including all the relevant institutions of that organization, in fact as far as I know there is no political party anywhere in the world including in Israel and Palestine that is in favour of a one state solution [at this time], but Kudos to Danon for spelling it out so clearly, the Europeans can now have no illusions about what needs to be done, Abbas needs to digest Danons rant as the true position of the Israeli government, and act to secure Palestine’s place in all the UN agencies and formally join the ICC.
And tomorrow Obama and Kerry and whomever here will carry on blathering about the two-state solution and how the U.S. has to do X, Y and Z to facilitate it, including of course continuing and ever-increasing the fire-hose of money and support down the throat of our good friend Israel.
One supposes some new word has to be invented for this. “Sham” … “farce” … they don’t even begin to capture it, do they? Almost by definition they assume that their perpetrators believe there is someone left to fool. But who is left to fool as to this anymore? Who *possibly* believes that Israel will ever agree to any even near- reasonable two-state solution?
So it’s sort of a … sham sham, as it were. A farcical farce. The U.S. pretends that it’s not really just running interference for an on-going land grab and instead is working with Israel to get a two-state solution and … the only people that applaud this are themselves shamming and instead are only farcically approving of same.
Given the long history of this now and its durability—in the face of world-wide laughter even now—one suspects the question comes down to mere acreage.
I.e., just how many few acres will be left un-colonized, un-ethnically cleansed, un-annexed before our American officials say “oh gee, it’s sort of impossible to have a state the size of a football pitch, isn’t it?”
Gotta get down pretty damn small though: After all, the argument will go … “Look at Monaco! Or the Holy See! See how the Palestinians think they’re better than everyone else!”
We oughta just ask Israel straight out now instead of prolonging the waiting: How many acres don’t you want?
Oh that’s right though, Israel doesn’t respond to same; that’s why it doesn’t declare its borders. (Despite constantly proclaiming it’s just like every other state.) They’re really secret from the rest of the world it seems. Expandable to utterly unstated and unknown limits, almost surely never to be formally declared.
This entire situation has now reached some new height of ridiculousness never before seen in history. The degree of control exercised by a smaller state over its much bigger patron … the blatantcy of the Israeli disingenuity about a two-state solution … the utter laughability of official statements made about a situation by various governments (U.S. and Israel) … and on and on.