Bibi The Peacemonger

IBD:

Outside of public view, Netanyahu is undoubtedly not counting his chickens. After all, in May he had to give President Obama a Mideast history lecture after our president said the indefensible pre-1967 borders should be the basis of negotiations.

Moreover, last week the ever-unhelpful Bill Clinton unjustly and absurdly declared that Netanyahu has no interest in peace. But in 2000 at Clinton’s Camp David talks between Yasser Arafat and former Israeli Prime Minister Barak, “It was the Palestinian side who walked away from his own parameters,” Netanyahu reminded Clinton and “Meet the Press” viewers.

The Palestinians and the leaders of Arab nations seem to be hoping that someday, an Obama/Clinton mindset will hold power long enough to force the Jewish state into surrender.

But Netanyahu warned that unilateral Israeli concessions invariably cause war. And he reminded the U.N. assembly that “when Israel left Lebanon” in 2000 “and Gaza” in 2005, “the moderates didn’t defeat the radicals; the moderates were devoured by the radicals.”

And he made it clear that “Israel is prepared to have a Palestinian state in the West Bank, but we’re not prepared to have another Gaza there. And that’s why we need to have real security arrangements, which the Palestinians simply refuse to negotiate with us.”

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