maybe you should read the plan. This is not a plan between terrorists. It is a plan for Palestine and Israel to restore peace. Hamas is mentioned more than once and the plan doesn’t suggest that Palestinians are terrorists, so this provision is nonessential as a result.
If the people they are trying to create an agreement with are not considered terrorists according to the plan. There is no reason they should not be considered equal. Therefore, there should be no provision for Israel to act as a supervisory authority within this plan unless what the plan is really trying to do is make Israel the military authority acting like a federal government in the area.
As you say, this is a “path to a state.” The Palestinians do not need to path to a state supervised by Israel and the United States. Peace includes a recognition of sovereignty for each party. This is not defined within this plan and it is right that the Palestinians have rejected it because of this.
I understand what you’re saying, but the Palestinians have done a pretty good job of convincing everyone that they are, in fact, terrorists. Unless you consider their leadership until now just a bunch of peace-loving guys who were forced by the occupation into blowing up school buses and cafes, and the like, Palestinians haven’t yet shown they can be a part of the civilized world.
There needs to be some sort of show of renunciation of terror, and an inclination to deal with Israel as one state who wants peace deals with a state they want peace with. How can Hamas pretend that they, and the Palestinians they claim to represent, really want peace, when they are launching terror attacks on Israeli civilians as we speak? How can Abbas say he wants peace when he’s directly supporting terrorism against Israel himself?
We need to stop pretending that the Palestinians have as much leverage as they’ve been treated as having, because they no longer do, or that they can be viewed as a cooperative partner in any kind of peace process. In stark contrast to what has historically been the case, they will be LUCKY if they get a state now. This deal will be imposed on them, whether they like it or not, and if you doubt this, look at the list of countries that support it.
As I’ve been saying, the game is over. The Palestinians don’t have anyone to play with anymore, and the countries that own the equipment, and control the playing field, are in the parking lot, honking.
No, if you think the Palestinians have only ever been seeking their own state to live peaceably alongside Israel in, and only committed terror in response to the injustice of a brutal Israeli occupation, it’s not fair.
And no, if you think that Israel has every right to the land they hold now, plus a lot more, and that they’ve done an amazing and admirable job building a world-class state, while under constant attack from Palestinian terrorists around them, and in their midst, it’s not fair, either.
But everyone except the Palestinians now wants peace, and so this is how it’s going to happen, whether the peace-loving Palestinians want it to, or not.
Their choice is to either continue to suffer the status quo, but now without the support, read that
cash, of much of the Arab world, or to try and act like civilized human beings, and cash
in with a ready-made and fully funded state. There is also no reason to think that, if the Palestinians show they can build a civilized country, that they can’t soon enough take full military control of their state, too.
But continued terror attacks on their innocent neighbours don’t make a great case for that just yet.
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