President Shimon Peres on Monday, coinciding with the opening of the Knesset winter session, urged lawmakers to act towards advancing peace efforts with the PA (Palestinian Authority), calling on public officials not to permit this opportunity to pass.
The president stated that it is true that there is no partner for peace, adding the current and future peace “will not be romantic”, and “it will not come out of love but from necessity”.
Mr. Peres used the agreements with Egypt and Jordan as examples, explaining in both cases there is no love, but the necessity has resulted in a lasting agreement.
In his remarks to the Knesset, Mr. Peres urged lawmakers not to permit the peace “to slip through your fingers”, repeating numerous times the urgency of the hour and the situation.
Settlement Council officials called on the president to remain silent, for the sake of honoring his position. They added that it was the same Mr. Peres who brought us Oslo and who backed uprooting Jews from their homes in Gaza and N. Shomron.
Ichud Leumi MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari interrupted the president during his plenum address, questioning just how the president, who is to remain apolitical, was delivering a political address.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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The only alternatives to a two-state solution are to give up the idea of a “Jewish” state (probably acceptable to Hareidim, and perhaps some others who value autonomy for the frum community over national sovereignty and could tolerate an “Islamic state”), or to “remove” the Arabs from Eretz Yisrael (“remove” as in how the Germans removed Jews from most of Europe – it’s not like they are going to go peacefully – also note that killing civilians requires certain extraordinary steps (cf. Ir Nidachas) so if you do advocate genocide you are saying the “Medinat Yisrael” is equivalent halachically to Malkus Beis David with a Sanhedrin, Navi, etc.).
Unlike a multiple choice test, “none of the above” isn’t an answer.
im sorry, akuperma, i dont really understand how you have reached these conclusions. why is it so unrealistic to forcibly expel however many Arabs from our lands? if they choose to fight, so be it. how can you compare the German “removal” of the Jews from Europe to a potential removal of Arabs from Israel? Hitler’s intent was to destroy them. He conquered Poland, then wiped out its Jewish population. Is this what Israel is doing? No. Israel seeks peace. There can be no peace with a Palestinian neighbor, as history has shown this to be the case. There can be no 2-state solution, and we shall never again be subject to the nations of the world. Do you want to be a dhimmi? do you want to be treated as a pig? because that’s what will be if you live amongst the Arabs.
This is absurd. Dont they know a “two-state” solution means the second state will be committed to a “one-state” solution with THEM becoming the one state, heaven forbid?
I support the formation of a Hamas/Fatah state with Shimon Peres as its President…..in Antarctica.
Peres it is time to retire, join a day kollel and do chesed in a soup kitchen. You are losing the grey cells necessary for decision making.