Leaving for UN, Benjamin Netanyahu Blames Palestinians for Jerusalem Violence

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Source: The Jewish Daily Forward

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will call for an end to incitement on the Temple Mount and discuss “Israel’s desire for peace with the Palestinians” during a meeting with John Kerry.

Netanyahu also said that during his address this week to the United Nations General Assembly he would speak about the Iran nuclear deal and the threat to Israel from Syria, in a statement as he boarded a plane Tuesday morning for the United Nations headquarters in New York.

“Each time that I address the United Nations I feel the privilege and great honor of telling the truth before the world on behalf of the citizens of Israel, on behalf of our country. The world needs to know what the citizens of Israel feel about the nuclear agreement with Iran and what we expect from the international community in the wake of this agreement,” Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu is scheduled to address the General Assembly on Thursday. On Friday, Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with the U.S. Secretary of State, with whom he will discuss the strengthening of Israel’s security, the prime minister said.


Read more: http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/321703/leaving-for-un-benjamin-netanyahu-blames-palestinians-for-temple-mount-viol/

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1. Ahead of UN speech, Palestinian leader eschews direct talks

RAMALLAH, West Bank — In a harshly worded essay ahead of his Wednesday address to the United Nations, the Palestinian president says a new “multilateral” approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is needed since direct negotiations with Israel have repeatedly failed.

Mahmoud Abbas says the model should be based instead on the type of negotiations that took place in the Balkans, Libya and Iran. Several rounds of past negotiations have been unable to reach a peace accord and Abbas shunned renewing them.

“The peace process must be multilateral. The same pattern of negotiations imposed for years will not work because Israel is the occupying power,” he wrote in an op-ed in The Huffington Post. “We cannot directly negotiate with a power that has this level of control and exhibits such contempt for the rights and existence of our people.”

While Abbas’ Palestinian Authority rules over most of the West Bank Palestinian population, Israel still controls much of the territory. Israel accuses Abbas and his predecessor Yasser Arafat of rejecting far-reaching Israeli peace proposals and inciting further violence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ahead-of-un-speech-palestinian-leader-eschews-direct-talks/2015/09/30/e03f76f8-6754-11e5-bdb6-6861f4521205_story.html

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2. it's really obvious, isn't it?

The Israelis view it as a situation where they would be doing the Palestinians a favor by negotiating, since there's nothing the Palestinians can offer the Israelis, since the Israelis already hold all of the cards and control all of the resources.

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3. Well, that game has gotten rather old by now.

And fake peace talks have a long history so it's not new, anybody can read about Nixon and Kissinger, for example.

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4. peace talks have been a useful lie for all the parties--

Abbas to pretend he's making progress towards his only real job duty, the Israelis to keep the rest of the world off their back, the US establishment and media elites to show that the occupied is to blame for the occupation, and the rest of the world to justify doing nothing.

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5. Yep.

Unfortunately this proves to be a completely disfunctional arrangement.

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6. it's not a question of coming to an agreement, or even 'winning' the current standoff

it's really about who's going to be the ultimate loser

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7. It's about not giving an inch (and maintaining your current cushy situation). nt

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8. until the ground crumbles underneath you nt

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9. Which eventually it does, because the problem remains unaddressed. nt

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10. problems for the next generation are not considered problems nt

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11. Thus ensuring the demise of whatever organization you claim to be "leading". nt

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12. People sometimes try to pretend this isn't a religious conflict when it clearly is

This whole situation is the perfect illustration of that fact.

Nothing animates the regional players more than who is allowed to pray on which holy site.

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14. Are Muslims allowed to flashmob the Kotel?

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15. Visitors of any religion can approach the Wall and pray beside it

Were you not aware of that?

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16. There were places I was able

to go to on my first trip to Israel 30 years ago that I wouldn't dream of visiting on my upcoming trip. Hebron for the Cave of the Patriarchs, Bethlehem for the Church of the Nativity. I'm not aware of even one religious shrine where Muslims are afraid to visit for fear of getting killed just for being there.

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17. People should not be afraid to visit holy sites

It is unfortunate that such behavior is viewed as being so contentious.

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13. Isn't that rich. Religious Jewish fundamentalists want to flashmob the Noble Sanctuary and Booboo

wants to blame the Palestinians.

He's a one trick phony.

what we expect from the international community in the wake of this agreement...

What an asshat. The international community wants Booboo to stop with the illegal colonization of Palestinian land, and Booboo is going to tell the world what he expects them to do?

The world can live without Booboo.