It Has Never Been About the "Occupation"

(Jerusalem Post) Oded Forer - With the opening at the House of Lords of the Balfour Apology Campaign, the Palestinian Authority is sending a message that ending Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) is not their primary objective, rather their target is Israel itself. This objective is consistent with almost a century of Palestinian rejectionism. The Palestinians rejected the Peel Commission recommendations of 1937, the Partition Plan of 1947, the Clinton Parameters of 2000, and the offers of former prime ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert in 2001 and 2008. If the Palestinian leaders had accepted any of these offers, they would have had a state. The writer is a Knesset member for Yisrael Beytenu.


2016-11-04 00:00:00

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