Comments on: Friday Night Terror http://www.israellycool.com/2005/02/27/friday-night-terror/ Down Under Punditry in the Middle East Thu, 24 May 2012 05:09:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymoushttp://www.israellycool.com/2005/02/27/friday-night-terror/comment-page-1/#comment-2938 Anonymous Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:47:55 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2005/02/27/friday-night-terror/#comment-2938 The premise of the disengagement plan is that there is no peace process and there is no peace partner. If Israel feels that it has a peace partner in the Palestinian Authority, Israel should not be unilaterally evacuating Jewish communities. Doing so would be a terrible negotiating strategy, as Israel is receiving nothing in return. Yet if Israel feels that it does not have a peace partner in the Palestinian Authority, Israel cannot continue to pretend that Abbas is someone who Israel can do business with.Israel cannot have it both ways, and it's time to choose one or the other (or think of a third option).Phony conferences, so-called goodwill gestures, and false optimism only lead to dead Jews. If the Israeli government won't say it, who will?http://americanjew.blogspot.com The premise of the disengagement plan is that there is no peace process and there is no peace partner. If Israel feels that it has a peace partner in the Palestinian Authority, Israel should not be unilaterally evacuating Jewish communities. Doing so would be a terrible negotiating strategy, as Israel is receiving nothing in return. Yet if Israel feels that it does not have a peace partner in the Palestinian Authority, Israel cannot continue to pretend that Abbas is someone who Israel can do business with.

Israel cannot have it both ways, and it’s time to choose one or the other (or think of a third option).

Phony conferences, so-called goodwill gestures, and false optimism only lead to dead Jews. If the Israeli government won’t say it, who will?

http://americanjew.blogspot.com

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