Kerry: If talks fail, Israel's future as a democratic Jewish state is at stake

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.570411

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that if Israeli-Palestinian negotiations fail, Israel's future as a democratic Jewish state is at stake.

"If talks fail, for Israel, the demographic dynamic will make it impossible to preserve its future as a democratic Jewish state," Kerry said during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Kerry said that today's status quo cannot last forever, and that a failure to make peace will lead to a deteriorating security environment and growing isolation that can put economic prosperity at risk.
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Kerry outlined several U.S. principles for solving the core issues: an independent state for the Palestinians wherever they may be ; security arrangements for Israel that leave it more secure ; a full, phased and final withdrawal of the Israeli army, a just and agreed solution to the Palestinian refugee problem; an end to the conflict and all claims ; and mutual recognition of the nation-state of the Palestinian people and the nation-state of the Jewish people.

Too late, John, but you already know that a democracy has to be a democracy for all. Apartheid runs contrary to democracy, John.

God, what a human rights mess the USA has helped enable.

[Israeli]

1. agreed ....

here read this :

http://adam-keller2.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/five-minutes-to-twelve-and-no-plan-b.html

If the negotiations fail, there is no Plan B… We might really be just five minutes away from a lot of trouble.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. TY for the article. I enjoyed reading it.

What is chilling is the concept that Hagai Segal would consider punishing those, assassination , that would dare boycott Israel.

Although chilling this is not the 1970s, and that kind of brute muscle against peaceful protest, regardless of covert means, would equally blacken the eye of Israel: leading to an accelerated boycott...or worse IMHO.

"We might really be just five minutes away from a lot of trouble."

I hope your children are not caught up in it, and I hope that some kind of peace can be reached that is equitable to all involved.