Following on Obama's disastrous speech last week we now see how bad it really was. This is the response from Palestinian Authority chief negotiator Saeb Erekat: "If Netanyahu accepts '67 lines, we'll resume talks" which basically means if Israel surrenders we will talk about everything else because we have won and Obama is on our side.
It boils down to this Israel is recognized by the world (other than of course for the Arab and Islamic States with which it has no peace treaty) as being a sovereign state and its sovereignty extends at least to the land encompassed by the 1949 Armistice lines, euphemistically called "the 1967 Borders". The "Palestinian" Arabs a "nation" which has never had sovereignty over any land at any time in history having only come into existence in 1964 is now being told:-
(a) not only that it will be entitled to sovereignty over and to barter away land (in Judea and Samaria) even though its legal entitlement to the same has never been or had to be proved and over which it has never had sovereignty and which was actually awarded to the Jews by the League of Nations which recognized the Jews' historical legal and moral entitlement to that land but (b) in addition it will also be entitled to land which indisputably belongs to Israel today (i.e. within the 1967 borders) in order that Israel can keep other land (in Judea and Samaria) to which it is already legally entitled.
This say would be analogous to a landowner let's call him A with two adjoining pieces of land to which he can show title. There are people on the second piece of land let's call them B with no legal title to it at least none recognized by law who are laying claim to it. A and B come to court to settle ownership. Judge Obama says that A has to give up all claims he has (even though they are recognized by law) to the second piece of land. Not only that but in addition A has to give certain parts of the first piece of land to B if A wants to keep parts of the second piece of land on which he has built homes for his family.
And without even going into the security aspects people wonder why Israel has rejected this proposal?
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