After the Euphoria of Oslo, Time Can Be a Great Teacher

Yisrael Medad..
My Right Word..
11 December '12..

From an op-ed by former Cabinet Secretary (under Prime Ministers Yitzchak Rabin and Shimon Peres) Shmuel Hollander in Maariv today:-

...Whoever speaks of "two states for two peoples" is really speaking about the establishment of Hamas in Judea and Samaria as well as Gaza. It's very clear that Hamas will take over Judea and Samaria, if via elections or if by violence (as in Gaza). That means that an Iranian outpost will be a few kilometers from the center of the country. The gap between Israel's position, including the moderate public, and the Palestinians is huge and can not be bridged. Never in our generation. Listen to senior Hamas political bureau head Khaled Meshaal during his visit to Gaza who announced that "there will not be a waiver of any portion of Palestine - from the sea to the river." Check the textbook references of the Palestinian Authority.

Even if there was not one settlement in Judea and Samaria, it would not be possible to reach a lasting peace. Those who accuse the government of stopping the political process and promise to change the situation, are selling the public illusions with no basis in reality. It is better to tell the truth: we are destined to continue to fight for our country and our lives and live by the sword for a long while. As in past years. True, it is hard to accept. It's much easier to indulge in euphoric peace, as in the days of Oslo. The truth is hard and painful, but it is preferable to illusions.

Link: http://myrightword.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/nothing-like-hindsight.html

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Turns Out Fayyad Is Not A 'People' Person

Daled Amos
22 September '10

You say eether and I say eyether,
You say neether and I say nyther;
Eether, eyether, neether, nyther,
Let's call the whole thing off!
Fred Astaire, Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

Well, this isn't going well at all--is it?

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad angrily left a UN Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee meeting and canceled a scheduled subsequent press conference with Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon in New York on Tuesday, after Ayalon refused to approve a summary of the meeting which said "two states" but did not include the words "two states for two peoples."

"What I say is that if the Palestinians are not willing to talk about two states for two peoples, let alone a Jewish state for Israel, then there's nothing to talk about," Ayalon told the Post in a telephone interview. "And also, I said if the Palestinians mean, at the end of the process, to have one Palestinian state and one bi-national state, this will not happen."

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Moderate Fayyad can't stomach "two states for two peoples"

Elder of Ziyon
21 September '10

From YNet:

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad left a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon outraged on Tuesday following a dispute about terminology to be used in the meeting summary.

A press conference scheduled to take place in New York after the meeting, which was held as part of the Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meetings, was subsequently canceled.

The dispute followed Ayalon's demand that the meeting summary refer to the notion of "two states for two peoples," rather than just "two states."

"I wanted that at the very least it will note two states for two peoples. I demanded to know what they meant. One Palestinian state and one bi-national state, or another Palestinian state?," the deputy minister told Ynet. "I made it clear that we were out of the picture if the summary didn’t say two states for two peoples."

If Ayalon's summary is accurate, this is a fascinating glimpse into even the so-called moderate Palestinian Arab psyche.

The terminology "two states for two peoples" was controversial when Netanyahu first announced support for that principle last year. It has been emraced for years by the far left, including Gush Shalom. It goes without saying that Western leaders like Tony Blair support that formulation as a given.

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