{"id":3221,"date":"2009-06-12T20:37:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2009-06-12T20:39:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T00:39:52","slug":"after-all-he-is-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/12\/after-all-he-is-netanyahu\/","title":{"rendered":"after all, he is Netanyahu&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/06\/12\/bibis_conditions\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bibi&#8217;s conditions<\/strong><\/a><br \/> <strong>The New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/\" target=\"_bank\">ForeignPolicy.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/> 06\/12\/2009<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">The <em>Washington Times&#8217;<\/em>s Eli Lake reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will say in his speech this weekend that he is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/12\/exclusive-israel-sets-conditions-for-palestinian-s\/?feat=home_headlines&#038;\"><strong>prepared to accept<\/strong><\/a> Palestinian statehood under the following conditions:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Any Palestinian state must be demilitarized, without an air force, full-fledged army or heavy weapons. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Palestinians may not sign treaties with powers hostile to Israel.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">A Palestinian state must allow Israeli civilian and military aircraft unfettered access to Palestinian airspace, allow Israel to retain control of the airwaves and to station Israeli troops on a future state&#8217;s eastern and southern borders.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Palestinians must accept Israel as a Jewish state, a nod to the hawkish side of Mr. Netanyahu&#8217;s governing coalition that has raised concerns that the Palestinian Authority, which nominally governs the West Bank, does not recognize Israel as a Jewish state.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" width=\"140\" src=\"http:\/\/momentmagazine.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/netanyahu_bibi.jpg\" \/>Lake characterizes this recognition by Netanyahu as a &quot;major shift,&quot; while Spencer Ackerman <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/attackerman.firedoglake.com\/2009\/06\/12\/benjamin-netanyahu-steps-boldly-into-1993\/\">quips that<\/a><\/strong> the prime minister is &quot;stepping boldly into 1993.&quot; The third paragraph is likely to be the most contentious condition, and creates a brand new issue for negotiations that didn&#8217;t really really need any new issues. I think accepting a Palestinian state is indeed a major shift from Netanyahu, though crucially, it&#8217;s one that doesn&#8217;t really require him to do very much while deflecting attention away from the one active thing that Israel <em>hasn&#8217;t<\/em> done since 1993, freezing settlement growth in the West Bank&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">[<em>Ackerman&#8217;s quote &#8211; priceless!<\/em>] Considering that it&#8217;s Netanhahu, it&#8217;s a good enough start. He avoids the big issue &#8211; settlements &#8211; and he&#8217;s tough on Israel&#8217;s power.  But, after all, he is Netanyahu. So I read this as an attempt to reach out in his way. We&#8217;ll see how long they bicker back and forth this time before they let us know if they can actually sit down at a table together and talk about a two-state solution that&#8217;s actually possible.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bibi&#8217;s conditions The New ForeignPolicy.com 06\/12\/2009 The Washington Times&#8217;s Eli Lake reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will say in his speech this weekend that he is prepared to accept Palestinian statehood under the following conditions: Any Palestinian state must be demilitarized, without an air force, full-fledged army or heavy weapons. Palestinians may not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}