Via Israpundit:
Bill Clinton: Netanyahu killed the peace process
By Josh Rogin Thursday, September 22, 2011 FOREIGN POLICY
Who’s to blame for the continued failure of the Middle East peace process? Former President Bill Clinton said today that it is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — whose government moved the goalposts upon taking power, and whose rise represents a key reason there has been no Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
Clinton, in a roundtable with bloggers today on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, gave an extensive recounting of the deterioration in the Middle East peace process since he pressed both parties to agree to a final settlement at Camp David in 2000. He said there are two main reasons for the lack of a comprehensive peace today: the reluctance of the Netanyahu administration to accept the terms of the Camp David deal and a demographic shift in Israel that is making the Israeli public less amenable to peace.
Might it occur to bubba that the reason there is no “peace” process and there never will be is because his fakestinian friends refuse to stop murdering Jews, inciting to genocide and working for the obliteration of the Jewish state? None of those things have even been factored in his statement. What is it about liberals which makes them completely devoid of a moral compass?
Might it be that the reason Israelis are less amenable to “peace” is because 18 years of the Oslo “peace” process has brought them rockets and suicide bombers even after having surrendered Gaza. Israel has gained nothing from Oslo and the surrender of vital territory but more terrorism and more demonization by the “international community”. It’s not peace that the Israelis oppose, it is the slaughter of their loved ones who’s toll rises in direct correlation to phony “peace” negotiations and surrendering territory.
“For reasons that even after all these years I still don’t know for sure, Arafat turned down the deal I put together that Barak accepted,” he said. “But they also had an Israeli government that was willing to give them East Jerusalem as the capital of the new state of Palestine.”
So Clinton admits that even under a leftist government, that the fakestinians turn down deals. So how is it Bibi’s fault? He doesn’t know why the deal was turned down? And this guy is supposed to be a Rhodes scholar. Well I have figured out why, genuis. Because arafat and the fakestinian population as a whole was not interested then or now, in statehood. What they want and always have desired, is the obliteration of Israel. What is so difficult to figure out? They have stated so openly for the more than 60 years of Israel’s existence.
“The most pro-peace Israelis are the Arabs; second the Sabras, the Jewish Israelis that were born there; third, the Ashkenazi of long-standing, the European Jews who came there around the time of Israel’s founding,” Clinton said. “The most anti-peace are the ultra-religious, who believe they’re supposed to keep Judea and Samaria, and the settler groups, and what you might call the territorialists, the people who just showed up lately and they’re not encumbered by the historical record.”
Israeli Arabs are pro peace? This is a hilarious claim. No, what they actually support is turning Israel into an islamic state free of Jews. They understand, just as their fakestinian brethren do, that the phony “peace” process is a step toward the destruction of Israel.
So “ultra-religious” Jews are the problem according to Bubba. It couldn't possibly be that the “ultra-religious" muslim jihadists who want a Judenrein Israel are the real problem.
No where in his sordid remarks does Clinton hold the fakestinians responsible for anything. Read the whole thing if you can stomach it.
4 comments:
"What is so difficult to figure out?"
Clinton knows, as do the other supporters of the Palestinians.
But there is a problem.
It just does not sound good to say, "I support the side that wants to commit mass murder."
So when it comes to perceiving Palestinian intentions liberals must feign ignorance, something they rarely must feign.
A dozen years ago President Clinton intervened in Israel's election to get Ehud Barak and the Labor Party elected. He had a compliant Israeli government to work with after he got Israeli voters to boot Netanyahu - he was quite popular with them.
What happened in the end was despite Israel giving up nearly everything, then PLO leader Yasser Arafat chose war over peace. Disillusioned Israelis kicked out Barak and elected Ariel Sharon.
Nowhere in his entire speech does Clinton hold Arafat responsible. Its not true to say Israel's leaders killed the peace process. That wasn't true in 2000 when Barak was Prime Minister and it isn't true today when Netanyahu is in office.
The reason there is no peace and there will be none in our lifetime is the Palestinian Arabs are not interested in living in peace alongside the Jewish State. That's not a mystery to any one.
Leave it to a Rhodes Scholar not to figure out what is no secret to the rest of the world!
Building settlements so that you can give them away or destroy them seems like beating your wife so that you can go into rehab, stop your behavior, and get the merit of being good now. I.e., it’s nuts. The latest spate of building in East Jerusalem to accommodate the ultra-Orthodox need for housing is just that: Nuts. I’m Modern Orthodox, but I agree with your American friend. I’m sick and tired of being expected to approve of everything the Jewish State does when so much of what it does is against its best interests and spurns things I hold dear, such as women’s right to pray at the Kotel, including halakhically correct Torah readings for women by women.
If you are negotiating the disposition of a pizza, how fair is it for one of the disputants to keep nibbling away pieces of said pizza before final agreement? This is a matter that cannot be ignored!!!!
If the Israeli government wishes to claim all of the territories in question, it ought to cease its dishonest charade and annex all the land it claims. Israel cannot have it both ways . Pretending to wish to negotiate a two state solution all the while ensuring such a solution is rendered impossible. Israel is fooling nobody by its actions
"Israel cannot have it both ways."
So true.
Only anti-Semites can have it both ways.
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