Netanyahu to insist Israel be guaranteed right to invade Palestinian state if it is not demilitarized

Dr. Aaron Lerner
Date: 15 June 2009

IMRA has learned that during the course of a telephone conference briefing
today for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his top political
advisor, Ron Dermer, Dermer told the group that Israel would insist it be
guaranteed the right to invade the Palestinian state in the even that the
state is not demilitarized.

Dermer did not explain either which body Israel would insist grant Israel
this right (UN?) nor the mechanism for establishing that the Palestinian
state is not demilitarized.

It should be noted that the United States has a long tradition of declining
to recognize or certify Arab agreement violations when recognizing the
violation would not serve American interests.

During the early years of Oslo, for example, when Congress made PA funding
contingent on the issuing of a periodic report that the Palestinians were in
compliance, the White House simply lied - in writing - solemnly notifying
Congress that the Palestinians were in full compliance.

As Henry Kissinger said to President Richard Nixon back in 1970:
"Israel, with her survival at stake, cannot afford to take chances.... The
nature of the Israeli's situation is bound to influence their interpretation
of ambiguous events. We, on the other hand, have an incentive to minimize
such evidence, since the consequences of finding violations are so
unpleasant. Violations force us to choose between doing something about them
and thus risk the blowup of our initiative; or doing nothing and thus renege
on our promises to Israel, posing the threat of her taking military action.
Accordingly, we tend to lean over backwards to avoid the conclusion that the
Arabs are violating the cease-fire unless the evidence is unambiguous."
[Henry Kissinger "White House Years", page 587]