Can there be a country surrounded by other countries? Can there be a country that is demilitarized? Is this an issue of security that has been known and discussed for years and years? The writer of the Huffington post is just that, a writer of a Huffington post and it's his opinion that you can't have a state with Israel controlling the Jordan Valley. He's not a statesman. He's not part of the negotiations. He's literally a nobody putting his two cents in, which is worth just that.
Israel is negotiating with a single goal in mind - security. They're not going to do anything that will endanger themselves and giving up the Jordan Valley is a major danger. Abbas offered a 10 year 'lease' of the area and if there was a way to tie it to security performance on the part of the Palestinians then maybe we would be closer to a solution. But like the writer of the article, I'm not a statesman and all I'm doing is second guessing those that are. On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How do you create an autonomous, sovereign Palestinian state without giving > up control? > ᧠> > On 18 July 2014 15:04, Michael Dinowitz <mdino...@houseoffusion.com> > wrote: > > > > > Read it again. He did not come out and say that he opposed a Palestinian > > state. That was a conjecture that was brought from him saying that israel > > can't relinquish security contrtol of the Jordan Valley (territory west > of > > the River Jordan), his actual quote. This is nothing new and has been > said > > by every Israeli government. > > > > Basically, it's another fluff piece article putting words in his mouth > and > > trying to paint the security control of the Jordan Valley as something > new. > > As a word of advice, any time anyone quotes any official, double check > what > > was an actual quote and what was conjecture. Especially if the article is > > on Huffington. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371783 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
