[Is Aluf Benn dreaming or reporting?] Netanyahu ready to agree to Palestinian state within temporary borders

Dr. Aaron Lerner
IMRA
23 April '10
Posted before Shabbat

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA:

To date Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been fully aware that it is fundamentally idiotic to agree to the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state without first resolving final status issues.

It is fundamentally idiotic because a sovereign state, once created, remains a sovereign state even if it opts to violate the terms, conditions and restrictions that were associated with the formation of that sovereign state. And this is especially the case since they can cite the absence of an agreement on final status issues due to Israeli intransigence to justify their decision to violate the deal.

That Barak, Peres and Mofaz may fail to comprehend this doesn't make the point any less true.

So what is really going on with this story?

Option #1: Aluf Benn, is pitching his own idea in the hopes that by putting up this balloon it will take on a life of its own.

Option #2: Someone in the government is pitching his own idea in the hopes that by putting up this balloon it will take on a life of its own.

Option #3: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has lost his mind - or is taking the incredible precedent setting risk of agreeing to something to placate the White House on the assumption that he can count on it being rejected by the PA.

Of course, anything can happen in this crazy world.

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