Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced that at present, it is not possible to reach a comprehensive peace agreement with the PA (Palestinian Authority).
In his address to the AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) Policy Conference in Washington, the senior minister explained the current situation as it pertains to the PA. Barak feels that an interim agreement safeguarding Israel’s security interests must be signed and if this is not achieved, Israel must act unilaterally to protect these vital interests.
The minister backed calls from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu calling for bold steps, but the PA has not responded with any reasonable offer. “We are not doing the Palestinians a favor’ Barak explained, emphasizing “Israel needs the two state solution”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Actually, a one-state solution would probably work. It would require the Palestinians to accept compensation for settlement (both the post 1967 ones, as well as the pre-1948 ones), and would requires the Israelis to accept the idea of being an autonomous Jewish community (even if well armed) within an Arabic Islamic state.
As Likud, Bennett and Lapd are leading the way to kick the Hareidim out of Israel, the Hareidim might do well to consider the one state option, which the gedolim favored 90 years ago (and whose advocacy led to Dr. De Haan’s murder by the zionists).