Jonathan S. Tobin said:
“As our Evelyn Gordon wrote in a prescient COMMENTARY [magazine]
article published in January 2010, by signaling its willingness to withdraw
from some territory, the Israelis did not convince anyone of their good intentions.
To the contrary, such concessions reinforced the [false]
conviction that Israel was a thief in possession of stolen property.
The reaction from the Palestinians and hostile Europeans
was not gratitude for the generosity of the Israelis
in giving up land to which they too had a claim,
but a demand that it be forced to give up even more.
Land-for-peace schemes and a belief in two states
on the part of Israelis has always led most Palestinians
to believe that their goal of forcing the Jews
out of the entire country was more realistic, not less so.”
SOURCE: article titled: Israeli Peace Gestures
Not Only Don’t Work. They Make Things Worse
by Jonathan S. Tobin, 2015 March 31, Commentary Magazine
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Sarah N. Stern said:
“Like many Jewish organizations, J Street is seduced
by lofty slogans like ‘pro-Israel/pro-peace’.
These words are intended to give the impression that
all that Israel has to do is immediately withdraw from the territories,
and then peace would ultimately break out.
This ignores the empirical evidence of what happened after
the withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May of 2000,
giving Hezbollah and their 150,000 missiles easy striking distance to Israel.
It also ignores the internally gut-wrenching Gaza withdrawal of 2005,
where the land has been used to launch thousands of rockets*
and incendiary devices launched from kites and balloons,
making life for those on Gaza’s neighboring communities a living hell
and destroying thousands of acres of Israel’s agricultural land.”
* NOTE: more than 10,000 rockets
SOURCE: Notes on the J Street conference
by Sarah N. Stern (President of the Endowment
for Middle East Truth), 2019/10/31 www (dot) JNS (dot) org
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Abdul Hameed al Ghabin [Saudi writer and political analyst] said:
“How can we achieve peace if the Palestinian people
remain without a place to call home? The answer is simple:
Jordan is already 78% of historical Palestine.
Jordanians of Palestinian origin constitute more than 80%
of the population according to U.S. intelligence cables leaked in 2010.
Jordan is essentially already the Palestinian Arab state.
The only problem is, the King of Jordan refuses to acknowledge this.”
SOURCE: A new Saudi perspective for peace
by Abdul Hameed al Ghabin 2019/8/21, www dot JNS dot org