From The Daily Beast, Leslie Gelb writes on how Obama's "Mideast bribes" won't work (he's right), but says that success might come instead if Palestinian leaders Mahmud Abbas and Salam Fayyad have an Anwar al-Sadat come-to-the-Knesset moment and there promise their acceptance of a "Jewish state in Israel," and avow their desire for (here Gelb borrows Sadat's words) "permanent peace based on justice."
Sounds lovely, but in the eyes of international law and UN resolutions, justice for the Palestinians ought to entail the ability to
Sounds lovely, but in the eyes of international law and UN resolutions, justice for the Palestinians ought to entail the ability to
- return to their lands - inside what is now Israel - from which they were dispossessed between 1947 and 1949;
- have Jewish settlements in the West Bank removed
- have completely equal citizenship, with full political rights and economic opportunity, in a bi-national state. An Israel described and accepted as a specifically Jewish state (which is one of the things that Gelb would call upon them to accept) would not, it seems to me, afford them those rights and opportunity.
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