Ya'alon: No Palestinian peace deal without Jewish state recognition

[Jefferson23]

**He does not want to act in a hurry and insightful comment about Hamas

Defense minister Moshe Ya'alon said Saturday that a peace agreement with the Palestinians is unreachable unless they recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is no partner for peace.

Ya'alon, told Channel 2 TV Saturday, "It is impossible to make an agreement without there being recognition on the other side of our right to exist as the national homeland of the Jewish people." He said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is "not a partner" for ending the conflict. Peace won't happen in his generation, he said.

Speaking on the Channel 2 public affairs program “Meet the Press,” Ya’alon said there is no quick fix for rocket attacks from Gaza.

Rather than speak about resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “there should be discussion of conflict management. I don’t know what will be here many years ahead, but when we are in a hurry, like in Oslo, or when it seems that we now have some ‘quick fix’ like in Gaza, we are wrong, we mislead and we miss the mark.”


snip* “Hamas is good for us in Gaza…I don’t go into what is good or not good, but when we examine a situation we also have to examine the alternatives,” Ya’alon said.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.580023

[shira]

1. His comment about Hamas was probably b/c the alternative is Islamic Jihad....

...which is more likely to attack with rockets now than Hamas.