Frank wrote on Jul 25
th, 2024 at 9:12am:
It is the Palestinians who do not want a two state solution. They want Israel wiped off the map and have only one Palestinian state.
Everyone knows this, everyone has known it since 1948. They have not accepted any of the 6 or 7 two state solution presented to them.
You're full of it, Frank! I've lost count of all the times I've had to correct your lies on this.
Here we go again:
"In January 1976, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) offered to negotiate the terms of this "two-state" consensus. With Washington’s support, Israel refused the good-faith Palestinian proposal. Choosing expansion over peace, it has done so ever since.
"... critics dismiss the 1976 peace initiative, arguing that the fratricidal Lebanese civil war rendered Palestinian recognition of Israel unthinkable.
Yet the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) discerned that Arafat was “willing and able” to deliver - the 1976 initiative was not an aberration, but began a deluge of Palestinian two-state proposals, in 1977, 1979, 1980 and 1982."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-negotiation-idea-always-f... Far from being the radical Islamic jihadist many people today believe him to have been,
Yasser Arafat and his PLO were actually far more concerned with hashing out a two-state solution than they were with being mired in endless conflicts and wars with the Zionist state. As a result, they had a more favorable image in the West than the Israelis would've liked them to have, especially at the time of the Oslo Accords.
A more antagonistic boogeyman was therefore required to disrupt a two-state solution and justify Israel's ethnic cleansing of the entire region.
Enter Hamas.
It's no secret that Israel took a leading role in creating Hamas. The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, informed his audience at a recent speech at the University of Valladolid in Spain: "Yes, Hamas was financed by the government of Israel in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority led by Fatah." (Reuters, Jan. 19, 2024)
A November 21, 2023 article in the Japan Times titled 'Israel's Historical Role in the Rise of Hamas' referred to the Palestinian resistance group as Israel's own "Frankenstein monster" and stated that, "Hamas, a spin-off of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, was formally established with Israel's support soon after the first Intifada flared in 1987...Israel's objective was twofold: to split the nationalist Palestinian movement led by Arafat and, more fundamentally, to thwart the implementation of the two-state solution for resolving the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
By aiding the rise of an Islamist group whose character rejected recognizing the Israeli state, Israel sought to undermine the idea of a two-state solution, including curbing Western support for an independent Palestinian homeland."
Even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledges this fact, like when he told a meeting of Likud Knesset members in March 2019: "
Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas...This is part of our strategy-- to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank." (Source: Ha'aretz, Oct. 9, 2023)
It is often repeated by people who don't know any better, that Palestine has been the major obstacle to 'peace in the Middle East.' Nothing could be further from the truth. Time and time again it has been the Israelis who have stifled serious attempts at peace, though for public relations considerations the opposite is always reported in the press.
In 1993, the PLO agreed to recognize Israeli sovereignty over all territories except the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, both of which have been illegally occupied by Israel's military since 1967. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to the terms which would become known as the Oslo Accords as part of a United Nations process of establishing peace between the Palestinians and Israel. This angered many of the hardline Likud Zionists, who believe the land of Eretz Yisrael should be entirely devoid of non-Jewish peoples.
https://revisionistview.blogspot.com/2024/05/october-7th-in-context.html