'World leaders must drop their slogans' | Israel | Jerusalem Post: "The path forward, he said, lay in ensuring security for Israel, an improved economy for the Palestinians, and stability for both.
'Economy, security, stability,' he repeated. 'It's impossible to artificially impose any political solution. It will fail, for sure. You cannot start any peace process from nothing. You must create the right situation, the right focus, the right conditions.'"
Lieberman has been depicted as some sort of Israeli Bush. These ideas though do make sense. Does he mean them? Does he have the talent to pull it off.
BTW .. how many people realize that until 1948 "Palestine" was the name IMPOSED on Israel by the Roman conquered following the Jewish Wars? The term usually meant Jews from the Levant and during WWII the Israeli brigade in the Brit forces was "Her Majesty's Palestinian Brigade?"
The concept of an indigenous Palestinian people, other than the Jews, was largely invented by Nasser and Fatah . Of course none of this gainsays the reality that TODAY, a NEW people, the Palestinians, has been forged. Their rights to self govern themselves, whether as a third state in the former Palestinian Mandate or in some sort of union with Jordan, should not be a question.
In the meantime I have had a weird experience. There is a UW faculty group that wants to promote civil discourse on Israel in response to threats by some "peace" groups to disrupt Israel Independence Day this Thursday. I offered to create a symbol .. a combination of the traditional Hamsa used by Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians as a symbol for calm and peace. They liked that but some got uptight because i added a peace symbol (too hippy) while others felt the word peace itself might be offensive. This is my graphic replay!
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