Netanyahu: For Palestinian State To Emerge Everyone Needs To Adjust Concepts Of Sovereignty

[Purveyor]

Only way to ensure that territory ceded by Israel does not turn into “third Iranian enclave around Israel's border” is to have long-term security presence.

By HERB KEINON \ 10/05/2014

If there is ever to be a Palestinian state, everyone is going to have to adjust their ideas of sovereignty, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

Netanyahu, who filmed the interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria during his stay last week in New York, said that the only way to ensure that territory ceded by Israel does not turn into a “third Iranian enclave around Israel's border,” is to have a long-term Israeli security presence inside a future Palestinian state.

The Palestinians, according to Netanyahu, “say: 'oh, you can't do that. That offends our sovereignty. We can't have the security presence or military presence of our former enemy on our soil. That doesn’t square with independence.' I say: Really? How about American forces in Germany 70 years after the fact or in Japan or in South Korea?” While acknowledging that “no analogy is perfect and identical,” Netanyahu said that if Hamas takes over the West Bank, “they could stop our international airport with mortars, not rockets, not missiles. Mortars, a guy with a mortar. So we have to find a security solution that is real, and I think it's possible.”

To do this, he said, “I think we have to adjust our conceptions of sovereignty. I don’t know if there's absolute sovereignty anywhere. I don’t see it in the economic field. We're all tied to international structures. We're all tied to limitations. And I think we have to think about having these security arrangements, which over time could be made shared security arrangements, but that's the way to keep Israel safe, paradoxically to keep the Palestinian Authority intact and ultimately to secure peace.”

The Palestinians have made clear that they are adamantly opposed to any protracted Israeli security presence anywhere in a future Palestinian state, including along the Jordan River. .

[enlightenment]

1. Interesting definition.

Just take out "supreme, absolute, uncontrollable, independent, supreme, paramount . . . etc, etc" and there you have it! Netanyahu's definition of sovereignty.

The supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power by which any independent state is governed; supreme political authority; the supreme will; paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and its administration; the self-sufficient source of political power, from which all specific political powers are derived; the international independence of a state, combined with the right and power of regulating its internal affairs without foreign dictation; also a political society, or state, which is sovereign and independent.

The power to do everything in a state without accountability, --to make laws, to execute and to apply them, to impose and collect taxes and levy contributions, to make war or peace, to form treaties of alliance or of commerce with foreign nations, and the like.

Sovereignty in government is that public authority which directs or orders what is to be done by each member associated in relation to the end of the association. It is the supreme power by which any citizen is governed and is the person or body of persons in the state to whom there is politically no superior. The necessary existence of the state and that right and power which necessarily follow is "sovereignty." By "sovereignty" in its largest sense is meant supreme, absolute, uncontrollable power, the absolute right to govern. The word which by itself comes nearest to being the definition of "sovereignty" is will or volition as applied to political affairs.

Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed.

[malaise]

2. So the Palestinians will have their state when they agree

to be a colony of the war criminal Bibi's Israel.