Thomas Friedman, another Israeli Firster in America, is one of those guileful Israelis who use the jugglery of words to hide the Israeli expansionism. Look at this article where, after giving quite thrashing to Iran, he is trying to present a 'balanced' side. But notice how he and people like
@Solomon2 never go into the details about what that 'Two State Solution' would like! If a Bantustan was acceptable then, yes, Israel had offered that in 2000 Camp David!
Bolded part: Notice the choice of words. While he is trying to appear 'balanced', and he knows that any inch of the West Bank is illegally occupied, he is NOT calling for reversing the land-grab! And he is using '
once Palestinians meet the legitimate security requirements' like words to give Israel the cover to keep the status quo, which is really a status quo of expansionism!
But, as usual, the Comments to this article are not charitable to him. Learned Americans have figured out Israel!
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But I don’t stop there. We also need to sharpen the choices for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel: We must not be in the business of making Israel safe so that a
radical messianic government can annex the West Bank. If we are going to keep resupplying Israel with missiles and even dispatch U.S.-run missile systems, Bibi needs to purge the settler lunatics from his cabinet, forge a national unity coalition and agree to open talks with a reformed Palestinian Authority — with a new technocratic cabinet led by credible leaders like former Prime Minister Salam Fayyad — on a two-state solution.
That would pave the way for the U.A.E. and other moderate Arab states to deploy troops to Gaza and for Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel and forge a security agreement with Washington.
Let me put this as clearly as I can:
This crisis in the Middle East will not end until Israel clearly defines its eastern border and declares that everything beyond it is reserved for a Palestinian state in the West Bank, once Palestinians meet the legitimate security requirements Israel needs to accept a two-state solution. Israel needs to be out of the Jewish settlements business — now. Israel’s creeping West Bank annexation is destroying its legitimacy as a democracy, when its self-defense requires all the friends it can get in the region and beyond.
Even more important, though, this crisis in the Middle East will not end until Iran, in effect, defines its western border and declares that everything beyond that is for the Lebanese, Syrians, Yemenis, Iraqis, Israelis and Palestinians to decide — so long as they respect Iran’s legitimate security needs. Iran needs to be out of the Islamic imperialism business.
