Akiva Eldar, Haaretz, July 31:
But at the top of the indictment that history will submit against Olmert will stand his criminal neglect of the Arab Peace Initiative. To date the Israeli cabinet has not even discussed the framework which for the first time offers Israel “normal ties” with all 22 members of the Arab League.
Abbas said during a meeting with representatives of the Palestinian diaspora this week in Cairo that he presented the initiative to Barack Obama. He says that the presumptive Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States said in response: “If the Israelis do not accept this initiative, which promises them life in peace and security in an area between Mauritania to Indonesia - they are crazy.”
Obama was wrong. Missing out on a chance for peace between Jewish, democratic Israel and all Arab states is not madness. It is an unforgivable crime.
Outsiders attempting to show their cleverness.
Reactionaries who preach their preach after reading a news article or 2, as if that’s called research - JOKE.
Read the original documents, the Arab states want Israel to return to the 1949 Armistance Lines. No where, got that no where do the Arab states retract and say Jews have the right to self determination. Why should Israel agree to establishing another Arab state, this probably entails withdrawing all the Jewish populations living there, that should ring some bells!
A population transfer of a population against their will that could cause a civil war … pretty risky, that is if your there and not shamelessly commently from some foreign country!
Why should Israel have to transfer their populations? Because the Arabs would attack and kill the Jews that remained. MMMM and idiots call this PEACE.