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Related: About this forumPM: For Palestinian state to emerge everyone needs to adjust concepts of sovereignty
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.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 doesnt 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 dont know if there's absolute sovereignty anywhere. I dont 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.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/PM-For-Palestinian-state-to-emerge-everyone-needs-to-adjust-concepts-of-sovereignty-378106
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PM: For Palestinian state to emerge everyone needs to adjust concepts of sovereignty (Original Post)
Jefferson23
Oct 2014
OP
Interestingly, he is being attacked on his right flank by Bennett and the like
oberliner
Oct 2014
#3
He's going to receive more pressure to end the occupation from the US/EU too. n/t
Jefferson23
Oct 2014
#5
Chemisse
(30,783 posts)1. So they can have their own state
as long as the Israeli military is in there, controlling it.
How generous.
Mosby
(16,117 posts)2. israel want temporary security outposts in the WB
To ensure the integrity of the Jordanian border.
Considering the history of suicide bombers coming from the WB, east j-lem and Gaza the request is very reasonable.
shira
(30,109 posts)4. Israel left Gaza w/o much of a security agreement....
...and things haven't worked out so well there since Hamas took over. Repeating the same thing in the WB isn't very intelligent.
It's called land for PEACE, not land for more war.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)3. Interestingly, he is being attacked on his right flank by Bennett and the like
Last edited Mon Oct 6, 2014, 06:07 PM - Edit history (1)
The fact that he is repeatedly talking about the idea of a Palestinian state has rankled them severely.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)5. He's going to receive more pressure to end the occupation from the US/EU too. n/t
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)6. I notice he didn't mention settlements, where do they fit in this 'adjusted sovereignty' picture?
because ya know it almost sounds like he wants a rubber stamping of the situation on the ground as is now, but I'm sure that can't be, can it?
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)7. What settlements?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)8. .......