Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu acted like a crybaby as soon as the UN Security Council passed the historic 2334 Resolution labeling Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as illegal and a violation of international law. Netanyahu used all names in the book to describe his rejection to the UN resolution and the UN itself.
However away from Bibi's rhetoric of which Israelis should not put too much stock, Israelis more than any others should celebrate the UN's importance; after all, It all started in 1947 and the UN resolution 181 to establish two states.
Palestinian and Arab collaborators with others either completely politically blind or ignorant or lacking vision with British occupied Egypt and Jordan and others rejected, waged war and were defeated. Since then the State of Israel was established and flourished in the Middle East.
Arabs waged other wars and lost the whole UN Mandated historic Palestine; Israel as a result of these wars occupied Egyptian Sinai, Syria's Golan and Palestine's Gaza and the West Bank and annexed Jerusalem and declared it as it's capital.
Israel as a result of historic peace treaties with Egypt, the PLO and the Hashemites Jordan's, withdrew from Sinai, withdrew from Jordanian lands and the Palestinian Authority was established to govern Gaza and the West Bank until a final peace treaty is established to establish the Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank with Jerusalem open and shared.
Israel in the process accepted UNSC Resolutions 242 to withdraw from occupied lands that followed the 1967 Six Days War that Egypt's Nasser, Jordan and Syria waged and lost miserably. UNSC 242 which was deliberately vaguely written by the "sneaky" Lord Caradon did not clearly mention "all" lands occupied in the 1967 war and caused numerous interpretations for years and decades and generations to come and until now as to where the line can be clearly drawn between Israel and Palestine. Israel after the 1973 war accepted UNSC Resolution 338 which called for ceasefire and to go back and accept UNSC Resolution 242.
Israel accepted it all and gave legitimacy to all from 1947 and until now. But the story is far from conclusion. On the Palestinian side there has never been a leader before and since Arafat that could galvanize the Palestinians around them and lead to agreements and historic change.
What is next: In 1947 the Arabs should have welcomed the Jewish state and established their own Palestinian state; Status quo in the West Bank cannot be maintained;Israel must end the occupation in the West Bank.
As for historic or religious claims, all should be disregarded for the simple reason, neither Israel nor Palestine could win the argument; Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank cannot go to Israel and "settle" on Israeli lands;Israelis cannot go to the West Bank and "settle" on Palestinian lands;There is no such a "right" to "settle" on Israeli or Palestinian lands
The question really has never been If but When the State of Palestine in Gaza and the West Bank will start; Israel a Jewish State means a Palestinian State in Gaza and the West Bank and Jerusalem shared
No other solution but the two-state solution with Jerusalem now and forever open and shared.
However away from Bibi's rhetoric of which Israelis should not put too much stock, Israelis more than any others should celebrate the UN's importance; after all, It all started in 1947 and the UN resolution 181 to establish two states.
Palestinian and Arab collaborators with others either completely politically blind or ignorant or lacking vision with British occupied Egypt and Jordan and others rejected, waged war and were defeated. Since then the State of Israel was established and flourished in the Middle East.
Arabs waged other wars and lost the whole UN Mandated historic Palestine; Israel as a result of these wars occupied Egyptian Sinai, Syria's Golan and Palestine's Gaza and the West Bank and annexed Jerusalem and declared it as it's capital.
Israel as a result of historic peace treaties with Egypt, the PLO and the Hashemites Jordan's, withdrew from Sinai, withdrew from Jordanian lands and the Palestinian Authority was established to govern Gaza and the West Bank until a final peace treaty is established to establish the Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank with Jerusalem open and shared.
Israel in the process accepted UNSC Resolutions 242 to withdraw from occupied lands that followed the 1967 Six Days War that Egypt's Nasser, Jordan and Syria waged and lost miserably. UNSC 242 which was deliberately vaguely written by the "sneaky" Lord Caradon did not clearly mention "all" lands occupied in the 1967 war and caused numerous interpretations for years and decades and generations to come and until now as to where the line can be clearly drawn between Israel and Palestine. Israel after the 1973 war accepted UNSC Resolution 338 which called for ceasefire and to go back and accept UNSC Resolution 242.
Israel accepted it all and gave legitimacy to all from 1947 and until now. But the story is far from conclusion. On the Palestinian side there has never been a leader before and since Arafat that could galvanize the Palestinians around them and lead to agreements and historic change.
What is next: In 1947 the Arabs should have welcomed the Jewish state and established their own Palestinian state; Status quo in the West Bank cannot be maintained;Israel must end the occupation in the West Bank.
As for historic or religious claims, all should be disregarded for the simple reason, neither Israel nor Palestine could win the argument; Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank cannot go to Israel and "settle" on Israeli lands;Israelis cannot go to the West Bank and "settle" on Palestinian lands;There is no such a "right" to "settle" on Israeli or Palestinian lands
The question really has never been If but When the State of Palestine in Gaza and the West Bank will start; Israel a Jewish State means a Palestinian State in Gaza and the West Bank and Jerusalem shared
No other solution but the two-state solution with Jerusalem now and forever open and shared.
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The Israeli prime minister's spokesman, Boaz Stambler, right, whispers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during the weekly cabinet meeting, at the prime minister's office, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. (Abir Sultan, via AP)
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