You can't teach an old dog new tricks

Israel Matzav
12 December '10

Defense Minister Ehud Barak has lived through just about everything and learned nothing since leaving the IDF in 1995. He proved it again on Friday night, by calling for the division of Jerusalem, something to which he tried and failed to get Yasser Arafat to agree in 2000-01.

Defense Minster Ehud Barak, who spoke after Clinton at the Saban dinner, also pledged to continue pursuing peace, stating that the contours of a two-state solution were well-known and going further than Clinton into the details of final status issues that have long rocked the process.

On Jerusalem – perhaps the most vexing issue – he described a solution splitting the city.

He said the issues would be discussed last and resolved along the lines of the Clinton parameters, namely “western Jerusalem and the Jewish suburbs for us, the heavily populated Arab neighborhoods for them, and an agreed upon solution in the ‘Holy Basin.’”

We've been there before, haven't we?

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