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> OUR WORLD: Time for a new Israeli diplomatic initiative
> By CAROLINE B. GLICK, The Jerusalem Post
> May 10, 2016
> The report is expected to include even more expansive assaults on
> Israel for refusing to deny Jews our civil rights in Jerusalem, Judea
> and Samaria. In a week or two, Israel will again be the focus of a
> well-dressed international lynch mob. According to news reports, US
> President Barack Obama intends to use the so-called Middle East
> Quartet, comprised of the US, the UN, Russia and the EU, as a tool to
> ratchet up Western condemnations of the Jewish state.
>
> The report is expected to include even more expansive assaults on
> Israel for refusing to deny Jews our civil rights in Jerusalem, Judea
> and Samaria.
>
> It will likely ratchet up the false claims that have already been made
> to the effect that Jewish cities, towns, neighborhoods and homes
> beyond the 1949 armistice lines are illegal and a threat to world
> peace.
>
> The Quartet statement will also brutalize Israel for lawfully
> destroying illegal construction projects undertaken by the EU in
> Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. The EU engages in illegal building in
> order to subvert Israel’s rule of law and enfeeble the IDF.
>
> Around the same time that Obama has scheduled his newest assault on
> Israel, France is expected to convene a so-called peace conference.
> The stated purpose of the conference is to restart the fraudulent
> peace process which the Palestinians killed nearly 16 years ago and
> have never agreed to resuscitate.
>
> The novel aspect of the French conference, which neither Israeli nor
> Palestinian diplomats will attend, is that other than the misleading
> headlines referring to their powwow as a peace conference, the French
> are making no effort to hide that the sole purpose of their initiative
> is to condemn Israel.
>
> The purpose of the conference is to provide diplomatic cover for the
> French government to recognize a state called Palestine. When then
> French foreign minister Laurent Fabius announced the conference in
> January, he said that whether or not the conference leads to peace,
> France will recognize “Palestine.” And just to be clear, the
> “Palestine” France intends to recognize will be located in land
> controlled by Israel and to which Israel has a valid claim of
> sovereignty.
>
> In the face of the approaching international onslaught, thought
> leaders and politicians on the Left insist that Israel must act. Prime
> Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, they argue, must participate in the Paris
> conference, and he must announce an initiative now to vacate Judea and
> Samaria, or to stop allowing Jews to exercise their legal right to
> build homes in these areas and in Jerusalem.
>
> If Israel takes the initiative, the reasoning goes, the international
> community will lay off of us.
>
> They will see that we are serious about wanting peace. They will stop
> believing that we are antipeace.
>
> And they may even notice that the reason there isn’t any peace here is
> because the Palestinians reject Israel’s right to exist, not because
> Israel is oppressing them.
>
> There are two basic problems with this approach.
>
> First, it is wrong.
>
> And second, it is counterproductive.
>
> Israel today is in the same position it has been in for at least 16
> years, since Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yasser Arafat rejected
> statehood and peace and launched the largest terrorist war against
> Israel we had ever seen, under the flag of jihad.
>
> Ever since Arafat walked away from the negotiating table at Camp David
> where then prime minister Ehud Barak offered him a state on half of
> Jerusalem, all of Gaza and 92 percent of Judea and Samaria, the
> position of the international community has been that Israel wasn’t
> sufficiently generous, not that the Palestinians reject peace.
>
> In 2003, facing growing US pressure, then prime minister Ariel Sharon
> listened to the voices insisting that Israel would find itself
> isolated if he didn’t take the initiative.
>
> As then president George W. Bush formed the Quartet and published the
> most anti-Israel diplomatic document ever to see the light of day in
> the form of the so-called Roadmap for Peace, Sharon took heed of the
> same voices that now insist that Netanyahu must preemptively cave to
> pressure.
>
> Sharon announced that Israel was leaving Gaza and northern Samaria and
> that to this end, he would forcibly remove 10,000 law abiding citizens
> from their homes, farms and communities, vacate the international
> border between Gaza and Egypt and remove every IDF soldier from these
> areas.
>
> Sharon and his advisers were sure that the international community
> would be impressed with his boldness. The striped-pants diplomats in
> Brussels and Washington would finally admit that Israel wasn’t the
> problem, the Palestinians are.
>
> They would finally lay off of us.
>
> In the event, after spending a news cycle or two joining Sharon and
> his media flaks in demonizing the peaceful farmers of Gush Katif, the
> Western media and the leaders of the international community
> determined unanimously that in light of Israel’s radical initiative,
> unprecedented in the history of nations, Israel was still “occupying”
> Gaza.
>
> It was the determination of the Americans, the French, the UN, the
> Russians, the EU and CNN that Israel continues to bear legal
> responsibility for the lives of the Gazans. Israel continues to be
> responsible for feeding them, giving them free electricity, giving
> them free medical treatment, and protecting them from Hamas
> terrorists, whom the people of Gaza overwhelmingly elected to rule
> them 10 years ago.
>
> In light of this experience, it is clear that the claims by the wise
> men of the Left that Netanyahu must follow in Sharon’s footsteps are
> utterly wrong and indeed, insane.
>
> By offering up more of its land, all Israel will do is reinforce the
> false view that there is something legally or morally wrong with
> Israeli control over its capital city and historical heartland. And
> that’s the heart of the matter.
>
> It isn’t that Israel cannot use diplomatic initiatives to improve its
> international position. It’s just that the Left’s view of diplomacy
> has things precisely backwards.
>
> To strengthen its diplomatic position, Israel has to stop playing this
> sucker’s game. It has to stop playing the patsy.
>
> The Left is right about one thing: Israel should announce a new
> diplomatic initiative.
>
> But its initiative should be acquisitive, rather than
> self-destructive. It should be based on actual rights, not on mythical
> wrongs.
>
> To this end, Israel should announce that given the Palestinians’
> rejection of the rationale of land-for-peace which stands at the root
> of the long-defunct peace process, and given the absence of any
> Palestinian constituency that supports the two-state formula under
> which a Palestinian state will live at peace with the Jewish state,
> Israel no longer believes it is possible to effectively govern Judea
> and Samaria through a military government.
>
> As a result, it is enacting a process of gradually applying Israeli
> law to these areas, to ensure their proper governance under Israel’s
> liberal legal code. The process will begin in areas not under the
> direct jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority.
>
> That is, the new initiative will first be implemented in what is
> commonly known as Area C.
>
> We can take for granted that such an act by Israel will be universally
> rejected and condemned by the international community. But at least it
> will change the narrative.
>
> If Israel takes this initiative, for the first time since 1993 we will
> be able to stop granting legitimacy to Fatah, the terrorist group that
> runs the PA.
>
> Last week, even Canada’s Federal Court recognized that Fatah is a
> terrorist group. And yet, so long as Israel continues to bow and
> scrape and justify its existence to the French, to the Obama
> administration, to the UN and the EU, the obvious fact that the
> Palestinians writ large are the obstacle to peace will remain largely
> hidden from view.
>
> An Israeli initiative to assert its legal rights to Judea and Samaria
> is the only way to break the juggernaut of the international lynch
> mob. The time to act is now.
>
> http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/OUR-WORLD-Time-for-a-new-Israeli-diplomatic-initiative-453560
>
>
> =============================================
> Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)
> POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel
> mailto:wf...@womeningreen.org
> http://www.womeningreen.org
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> OUR WORLD: Time for a new Israeli diplomatic initiative
> By CAROLINE B. GLICK, The Jerusalem Post
> May 10, 2016
> The report is expected to include even more expansive assaults on
> Israel for refusing to deny Jews our civil rights in Jerusalem, Judea
> and Samaria. In a week or two, Israel will again be the focus of a
> well-dressed international lynch mob. According to news reports, US
> President Barack Obama intends to use the so-called Middle East
> Quartet, comprised of the US, the UN, Russia and the EU, as a tool to
> ratchet up Western condemnations of the Jewish state.
>
> The report is expected to include even more expansive assaults on
> Israel for refusing to deny Jews our civil rights in Jerusalem, Judea
> and Samaria.
>
> It will likely ratchet up the false claims that have already been made
> to the effect that Jewish cities, towns, neighborhoods and homes
> beyond the 1949 armistice lines are illegal and a threat to world
> peace.
>
> The Quartet statement will also brutalize Israel for lawfully
> destroying illegal construction projects undertaken by the EU in
> Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. The EU engages in illegal building in
> order to subvert Israel’s rule of law and enfeeble the IDF.
>
> Around the same time that Obama has scheduled his newest assault on
> Israel, France is expected to convene a so-called peace conference.
> The stated purpose of the conference is to restart the fraudulent
> peace process which the Palestinians killed nearly 16 years ago and
> have never agreed to resuscitate.
>
> The novel aspect of the French conference, which neither Israeli nor
> Palestinian diplomats will attend, is that other than the misleading
> headlines referring to their powwow as a peace conference, the French
> are making no effort to hide that the sole purpose of their initiative
> is to condemn Israel.
>
> The purpose of the conference is to provide diplomatic cover for the
> French government to recognize a state called Palestine. When then
> French foreign minister Laurent Fabius announced the conference in
> January, he said that whether or not the conference leads to peace,
> France will recognize “Palestine.” And just to be clear, the
> “Palestine” France intends to recognize will be located in land
> controlled by Israel and to which Israel has a valid claim of
> sovereignty.
>
> In the face of the approaching international onslaught, thought
> leaders and politicians on the Left insist that Israel must act. Prime
> Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, they argue, must participate in the Paris
> conference, and he must announce an initiative now to vacate Judea and
> Samaria, or to stop allowing Jews to exercise their legal right to
> build homes in these areas and in Jerusalem.
>
> If Israel takes the initiative, the reasoning goes, the international
> community will lay off of us.
>
> They will see that we are serious about wanting peace. They will stop
> believing that we are antipeace.
>
> And they may even notice that the reason there isn’t any peace here is
> because the Palestinians reject Israel’s right to exist, not because
> Israel is oppressing them.
>
> There are two basic problems with this approach.
>
> First, it is wrong.
>
> And second, it is counterproductive.
>
> Israel today is in the same position it has been in for at least 16
> years, since Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yasser Arafat rejected
> statehood and peace and launched the largest terrorist war against
> Israel we had ever seen, under the flag of jihad.
>
> Ever since Arafat walked away from the negotiating table at Camp David
> where then prime minister Ehud Barak offered him a state on half of
> Jerusalem, all of Gaza and 92 percent of Judea and Samaria, the
> position of the international community has been that Israel wasn’t
> sufficiently generous, not that the Palestinians reject peace.
>
> In 2003, facing growing US pressure, then prime minister Ariel Sharon
> listened to the voices insisting that Israel would find itself
> isolated if he didn’t take the initiative.
>
> As then president George W. Bush formed the Quartet and published the
> most anti-Israel diplomatic document ever to see the light of day in
> the form of the so-called Roadmap for Peace, Sharon took heed of the
> same voices that now insist that Netanyahu must preemptively cave to
> pressure.
>
> Sharon announced that Israel was leaving Gaza and northern Samaria and
> that to this end, he would forcibly remove 10,000 law abiding citizens
> from their homes, farms and communities, vacate the international
> border between Gaza and Egypt and remove every IDF soldier from these
> areas.
>
> Sharon and his advisers were sure that the international community
> would be impressed with his boldness. The striped-pants diplomats in
> Brussels and Washington would finally admit that Israel wasn’t the
> problem, the Palestinians are.
>
> They would finally lay off of us.
>
> In the event, after spending a news cycle or two joining Sharon and
> his media flaks in demonizing the peaceful farmers of Gush Katif, the
> Western media and the leaders of the international community
> determined unanimously that in light of Israel’s radical initiative,
> unprecedented in the history of nations, Israel was still “occupying”
> Gaza.
>
> It was the determination of the Americans, the French, the UN, the
> Russians, the EU and CNN that Israel continues to bear legal
> responsibility for the lives of the Gazans. Israel continues to be
> responsible for feeding them, giving them free electricity, giving
> them free medical treatment, and protecting them from Hamas
> terrorists, whom the people of Gaza overwhelmingly elected to rule
> them 10 years ago.
>
> In light of this experience, it is clear that the claims by the wise
> men of the Left that Netanyahu must follow in Sharon’s footsteps are
> utterly wrong and indeed, insane.
>
> By offering up more of its land, all Israel will do is reinforce the
> false view that there is something legally or morally wrong with
> Israeli control over its capital city and historical heartland. And
> that’s the heart of the matter.
>
> It isn’t that Israel cannot use diplomatic initiatives to improve its
> international position. It’s just that the Left’s view of diplomacy
> has things precisely backwards.
>
> To strengthen its diplomatic position, Israel has to stop playing this
> sucker’s game. It has to stop playing the patsy.
>
> The Left is right about one thing: Israel should announce a new
> diplomatic initiative.
>
> But its initiative should be acquisitive, rather than
> self-destructive. It should be based on actual rights, not on mythical
> wrongs.
>
> To this end, Israel should announce that given the Palestinians’
> rejection of the rationale of land-for-peace which stands at the root
> of the long-defunct peace process, and given the absence of any
> Palestinian constituency that supports the two-state formula under
> which a Palestinian state will live at peace with the Jewish state,
> Israel no longer believes it is possible to effectively govern Judea
> and Samaria through a military government.
>
> As a result, it is enacting a process of gradually applying Israeli
> law to these areas, to ensure their proper governance under Israel’s
> liberal legal code. The process will begin in areas not under the
> direct jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority.
>
> That is, the new initiative will first be implemented in what is
> commonly known as Area C.
>
> We can take for granted that such an act by Israel will be universally
> rejected and condemned by the international community. But at least it
> will change the narrative.
>
> If Israel takes this initiative, for the first time since 1993 we will
> be able to stop granting legitimacy to Fatah, the terrorist group that
> runs the PA.
>
> Last week, even Canada’s Federal Court recognized that Fatah is a
> terrorist group. And yet, so long as Israel continues to bow and
> scrape and justify its existence to the French, to the Obama
> administration, to the UN and the EU, the obvious fact that the
> Palestinians writ large are the obstacle to peace will remain largely
> hidden from view.
>
> An Israeli initiative to assert its legal rights to Judea and Samaria
> is the only way to break the juggernaut of the international lynch
> mob. The time to act is now.
>
> http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/OUR-WORLD-Time-for-a-new-Israeli-diplomatic-initiative-453560
>
>
> =============================================
> Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)
> POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel
> mailto:wf...@womeningreen.org
> http://www.womeningreen.org
> For online donations to Women in Green:
> http://www.razoo.com/story/Women-In-Green
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