Encountering Peace: Dressing up the Palestinian state
OK, Binyamin Netan-yahu said the magic words "Palestinian state," now what? ...Where do we go from here? How do those words become transformed into reality? Let's try to imagine.
OK, Binyamin Netan-yahu said the magic words "Palestinian state," now what? ...Where do we go from here? How do those words become transformed into reality? Let's try to imagine.
Carter nevertheless stressed that the differences between US President Barack Obama and Netanyahu could be overcome.
US President Barack Obama's Cairo speech and subsequent remarks by him and other senior US officials have made it clear beyond any doubt that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is two states for two peoples.
There is no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict other than "two states for two peoples." Any other proposal guarantees the continuation of the conflict and the end of the Zionist enterprise, the State of Israel.
Barack Obama is often compared to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but it is from the book of another Roosevelt that he has taken a leaf: President Theodore Roosevelt, who, 108 years ago, advised his successors: “Speak softly and carry a big stick!”
Obama has made clear that whether a two-state solution is acceptable to a Likud government or not, that is the only formula up for negotiation.
From a speech given at the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace on April 1st.
If Israel seeks peace, it must not demand that the Palestinians recognize its Jewish character...
Public opinion research into what would motivate Israelis to accept making significant concessions, such as those called for in the Arab Peace Initiative, take us back to a notion of a ‘true partnership'.
An unlikely pair of peace campaigners brought their message to Britain last week.
