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| Israel's U.S. ambassador: No one will dictate Israel's borders |
| 2010-10-20 |
| [Haaretz] Israel's ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told news hounds on Tuesday that Israel would not allow anyone to dictate its borders. "Like Ben-Gurion, Netanyahu will not allow the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, or any other organization, to dictate our borders. They will be determined through negotiations," he said in Washington during an event at the Chamber of commerce celebrating 25 years since the establishment of the Free Trade agreement between the U.S. and Israel. In September, Israel entered into U.S.-sponsored direct peace negotiations with the Paleostinians, which subsequently broke down in the wake of the expiration of a temporary Israeli moratorium on construction in West Bank settlements. As part of the negotiations, Paleostinian negotiators have demanded the establishment of a Paleostinian state along the 1967 borders. "Today, too, Israel is blessed with principled and courageous leadership. While facing terrorist groups sworn to destroy every last one of us - women, children, senior citizens - and some 60,000 Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Hezbullies rockets pointed directly at our homes; with so-called human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... organizations and boycott movements and campus coalitions denying our right to defend ourselves and even our right to exist, and with Iranian leaders swearing to wipe us off the map and striving to produce the nuclear means for doing that.... With all of those challenges, the Israeli government under PM Benjamin Netanyahu has not for a nanosecond reduced its commitment to peace," Oren said. "But not a peace at any price," he added. "Not a peace that will impair Israel's security or impugn its identity as the nation state of the Jewish people. As Netanyahu said last year in his Bar-Ilan speech, he will not allow any future Paleostinian state to become another Leb or Gazoo." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Exactly as TW is say. The world desires a new honest to gawd.... TREATY OF PARIS or a CONCORD OF PARIS.... this will allow folks to browse the fine establishments in this ancient Frankish City and rub shoulders with serious peeps. Yeah... treaty a paris..... jews out, arabs in... send money. |
| Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where 2010-10-20 17:49 |
| #2 Votes in the UN General Assembly are meaningless and powerless, which is why there are so many votes to condemn Israel there. Only the Security Council votes matter, and there the U.S. has a veto, as one of the permanent members. Historically, the U.S. almost always vetoed UNSC resolutions against Israel. The concern is that under President Obama the U.S. would either vote for the measure or abstain, allowing it to pass. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-20 16:30 |
| #1 BHO and Hillary might try to push a Paleo statehood process through the UN in lieu of a negotiated peace process between Israel and the Paleos. All the U.S. would have to do is a "No Vote" in the UN which Obama is good at. The resolution would be passed. Of course Israel would say go screw yourselves. I could see a war being precipitated because of such meddling at the UN. John Bolton has warned about the possibility forcing a one-sided settlement at the UN. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-10-20 08:18 |