France plows ahead with plans for Israeli-Palestinian peace summit

[Little Tich]

Source: Jerusalem Post

According to a Channel 2 report on Friday, the French government has submitted details of its diplomatic plan to members of the UN Security Council.

There appears to be move afoot to bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders together in a bid to revive the moribund peace process – with France leading the way.

According to a Channel 2 report on Friday, the French government has submitted details of its diplomatic plan to members of the UN Security Council.

The document calls for the convening of an international summit which would include Arab states as well as representatives of the Quartet.

The agenda of the conference, which would take place as early as April, includes laying the groundwork for a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian officials this summer.

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/France-plows-ahead-with-plan-to-arrange-Israeli-Palestinian-peace-summit-445512

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1. pressure on PA or just on Israel?

"In January, outgoing French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius originally presented the French initiative, threatening that Paris would formally recognize a Palestinian state should its efforts to renew the peace process fail."

I guess that answers the question. Expect stabbings.

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2. Of course, the stabbings that will happen are the fault of those pesky French.

50 years of oppression and occupation have nothing to do with the stabbings. Nothing.

[Mosby]

6. It's not the Palestinians who claim that this is about the occupation

The Palestinians and their leadership claim the knife intifada is designed to protect the al-aksa mosque from desecration (and eventual destruction) by Jews and their "filthy feet" to quote Abbas.

This video is a good summary of the Palestinian incitement to violence:

The Palestinians though the years, especially recently, have been brainwashed to believe this libel, consider that the Temple Mount is controlled by Muslims and Jews and Christians are not even allowed to pray anywhere on those 37 acres of land.

The notion of desecration and destruction of the mosque by Jews is completely divorced from reality.

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7. .

[Little Tich]

3. An honest broker in the Middle-East is the last thing Netanyahu wants.

The pressure to withdraw should be applied to the occupier, not the occupied.

[King_David]

5. Good post ....

[aranthus]

8. As long as Israel can win the next war, does it matter?

Let's say that Israel is forced to withdraw from the West Bank and the Arab parts of Jerusalem in exchange for little or nothing from the Palestinians. Now there would be a small chance that peace would take hold, which I think you would be okay with. But that's unlikely, and there would almost certainly be attacks against Israel from Palestine. Would Israel put up with that? Maybe for a while, but not for long. So there would be a war. And as long as Israel wins that war, what then? Quite likely no Palestine ever again, and many of the Palestinians flee to Jordan. Not good for Israel because of the casualties, but really terrible for the Palestinians. And they would have only there themselves and their Leftist friends to blame.

I know what you're thinking. What if Israel can't win the war? In that case, Israel is in trouble no matter what. So the key is making sure that Israel is militarily and politically strong enough to win any future war.

[aranthus]

10. I'm sure of that.

Just as I'm sure that the Chinese didn't want to be at war with the Japanese in 1937, and that the Soviets didn't want to be at war with the Nazis in 1941. Sometimes you don't have the choice (unless you want to surrender, which is the only guaranteed way to prevent war).