What Netanyahu really thinks:
“I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.”
David Horovitz spells out what this means:
Not relinquishing security control west of the Jordan, it should be emphasized, means not giving a Palestinian entity full sovereignty there. It means not acceding to Mahmoud Abbas’s demands, to Barack Obama’s demands, to the international community’s demands. This is not merely demanding a demilitarized Palestine; it is insisting upon ongoing Israeli security oversight inside and at the borders of the West Bank. That sentence, quite simply, spells the end to the notion of Netanyahu consenting to the establishment of a Palestinian state. A less-than-sovereign entity? Maybe, though this will never satisfy the Palestinians or the international community. A fully sovereign Palestine? Out of the question.
The “peace-process” is and always was a sham. Greater Israel, if Netanyahu and his supporters have their way, will exist for ever. It seems to me that this is a fact that American policy should not have to absorb.
It was a shockingly beautiful weekend up here on Cape Cod – and I spent much of it playing with my dogs. The Dish was in a very upbeat mood as well: from Linklater’s remarkable new meditation on time and life to the truly promising possibilities of cognitive behavioral therapy; from Oliver Sacks’s LSD joys to Christopher Isherwood’s epiphany of awareness; from a celebration of the beauty and depth of the Latin Mass to two poems in awe of the English countryside in the summer.
Two more: the Christian-Buddhist meditations of Rowan Williams; and the deeper atheism of Friedrich Nietzsche.
The most popular post of the weekend was The Revenge Doctrine, Ctd, followed by Psyched About CBT.
See you in the morning.
(Photo: German fans celebrate as they watch the 2014 FIFA World Cup Finals at a nightclub on July 13, 2014 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. By David Ramos/Getty Images.)
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