{"id":3717,"date":"2010-12-27T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T19:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2010-12-27T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T19:13:40","slug":"israel-just-say-no-to-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/27\/israel-just-say-no-to-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel: Just Say No to Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel\u2019s Foreign Minister, Avignor Lieberman has a word to describe peace that I have never heard used in that context before: FORBIDDEN!  It could be that any nation that who puts a Lieberman in an exalted post, such as Foreign Minister or Chairman of Homeland Security ought to have their heads examined, but more likely, this is just the next step for the bellicose Netanyahu Regime to just say no to peace.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"27Lieberman\"Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said today that a peace deal with the Palestinians is impossible and that Israel should pursue a lesser deal instead, an idea the Palestinians swiftly rejected.<\/p>\n

The latest diplomatic spat came as violence along the Israel-Gaza border simmered. After days of accelerated Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel and Israeli airstrikes in response, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians early today.<\/p>\n

Lieberman told Israeli diplomats that instead of a full peace deal, Israel should seek a long-term, interim agreement on security and economic matters. Palestinians have consistently rejected that approach.<\/p>\n

"It’s not only that it is impossible" to reach an overall agreement, he said. "It is simply forbidden<\/font><\/strong>."\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Common Dreams<\/a>><\/p>\n

Lieberman\u2019s rationale is that the government of Gaza is illegitimate, because there have been no free elections for that region.  He conveniently ignores the elections in which the Palestinian people chose the Hamas party, for good or ill, over Fatah.  I do not support Hamas, but I do support the right of Palestinians to choose their own government.  If anything, the Fatah government of the West Bank is illegitimate, because their election did not include Gaza residents.  Lieberman\u2019s lie does not prove out.<\/font><\/p>\n

The proposal for a long-term interim agreement has one purpose, in my opinion.  While such an agreement is in effect, Israel would continually build on Palestinian land until their treaty obligation to a two state solution is mute.<\/font><\/p>\n

As long as the US government continues to support a government in Israel that pursues such a policy, our government makes us a party to their war crimes.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israel\u2019s Foreign Minister, Avignor Lieberman has a word to describe peace that I have never heard used in that context before: FORBIDDEN!  It could be that any nation that who puts a Lieberman in an exalted post, such as Foreign Minister or Chairman of Homeland Security ought to have their heads examined, but more likely, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}