Everyone knows.

 

by Melanie Phillips

 

According to David Ignatius, the Obama administration is preparing to impose a 'solution' to the Middle East impasse between Israel and the Arabs "Palestinians".

 

Apparently, everyone knows what such a 'peace deal' would look like.

 

Well if everyone knows, why hasn't it been achieved?

 

Apparently it's much like the agreement that was nearly reached at Camp David in 2000 and in subsequent negotiations.

 

Ah yes, 'nearly'. Only problem was the Palestinians wouldn't have it, even though it offered them more than 90 per cent of the disputed territories and half of Jerusalem. Why didn't they accept it? Because they wanted more. Everyone who has read the history knows what a peace deal would look like because it was offered in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s and 2000; only problem is that the Arabs rejected it.

 

The Palestinians 'know' what a peace deal that they would agree to would look like. It would consist of peace without Israel existing at all. They've said so many times. For some inexplicable reason, not everyone in the Obama administration 'knows' this fact. Indeed, none of them seems to. Or if they do, they're not telling us.

 

An anonymous American official told Ignatius:

 

...an American plan, if launched, would build upon past progress on such issues as borders, the 'right of return' for Palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem.

 

Fascinating! The Obama administration knows what everyone else doesn't know they know. What Israeli borders does 'everyone know'? The 1967 borders, aka the 1947 'Auschwitz borders'? Or the borders proposed in 2000, which included some of the settlements and the Jewish areas of Jerusalem beyond the Green Line which everyone but the Obama administration has known for the past several decades will always remain part of Israel?

 

Why should there be a 'right of return' to Israel for Palestinian immigrants when the point of this imposed 'peace deal' is the establishment of a state of their own? Since when did 'everyone know' that a key aspect of the Palestinians' 'right to a state of their own' is also apparently their right to someone else's state?

 

And precisely what does 'everyone know' is to be the final status of Jerusalem, the most difficult issue of all?

 

'Incrementalism hasn't worked,' continued the second official, explaining that the U.S. cannot simply allow the Palestinian problem to keep festering — providing fodder for Iran and other extremists.

 

And everyone knows that the way to stop the Palestinian problem festering – a problem which festers solely because of the refusal of the Palestinians to abjure for ever their existential war against the state of Israel, or even currently to negotiate with Israel – is not to force the Palestinians thus to abjure their belligerency or to negotiate but to force Israel instead to make it easier for them to attack and destroy it.

 

It is blindingly obvious what, to the Obama administration, 'everyone knows' . Everyone knows that everything the Palestinians demand will be given to them; everyone knows that Israel alone will be expected to make yet more 'painful concessions' which will jeopardise its security and identity; everyone knows that the Palestinian aggressors will be expected to make no such painful concessions, such as agreeing to allow the State of Israel to exist in peace; everyone knows that aggression will thus be rewarded and its victims further bullied; and everyone now knows that this monstrous injustice will be imposed by Obama upon a sovereign state like an imperialist boot stamped upon its face.

 

And what everyone in the Palestinian camp knows is that Obama has now given them a green light for further intransigence and violence; and what everyone in the Iranian regime knows is that Obama is delivering the western world to it on a plate.

 

 

Melanie Phillips

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