Two State Imposition

Submitted by Blackspeare (United States), Apr 1, 2010 at 15:13

It is pretty well established that Obama's demands during his latest meeting with Netanyahu point to a calculated intention to impose a permanent settlement on Israel and the Palestinians in less than two years. These demands are the tip of the iceberg under which lies a dramatic change in U.S. policy toward Israel----just what the Arabs were waiting to happen for the past 60 years.

Of demands posed by Obama, four deal with Jerusalem: opening a Palestinian commercial interests office in East Jerusalem, an end to the razing of structures in Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem, stopping construction in Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. Obama, right now, is feeling invincible. He and his ME staff see no hope in direct negotiations and the best alternative is to by-pass such negotiations as this would set up a framework through which Obama with support from the world at large, would be able to impose a final settlement----I avoided saying "final solution" because of obvious sensitivities, but it could very well result in that!!!

The fact that the White House and State Department have been in contact with Israel's European allies, first and foremost Germany, is seen as part of an effort to isolate Israel and put enormous political pressure on it. Essentially they will take Israel back to 1947 in regards to the UN's initial two state objective with a divided Jerusalem and to pre-1967 to set the borders.

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