Peace in Israel: Giving away the farm, the barn and the hen house?

In Israel, I know there is a large consenus that wants peace with the so called palestinians. You know, those poor, downtrodden arabs that are kept in poverty by those evil joos. Israel has offered up way too much in my opinion and now wants to give more away in further security agreements? This is just the tip of the iceberg. Going back to the borders of 1967 is foolish, let alone extremely dangerous. Why should Israel give back any land they won in wars that were not started by Israel? How many countries have been coerced into giving land back won in brutal wars throughout history? Not too many and Israel does not and should not make any more concessions, period. The Muslims and radical Islamists will never be satisfied until Israel ceases to exist and every Jew possible is dead. Soemtimes I think the mullah obamaham would like to see the same end for Israel and the Jews. Just like his brothers and sisters of Islam wouild love to see Israel and the Jews be vaporized. Moderates of Islam where are you?

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Why Isn't There Peace? One Reason: Few People Know How Much is Being Offered

Barry Rubin

I’ve been having a dialogue through correspondence lately with someone describing himself as a moderate Palestinian who lives in the United States. What most impressed me in the exchanges--both from what my interlocutor said and how he described the views of other Palestinians--is the total lack of comprehension on their part—those who live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip along with those who live elsewhere, both moderate and radical--about Israeli positions toward peacemaking that are easily available on the public record.

Among Palestinians, as more broadly with almost all of the public in the Muslim-majority world and a lot of the elite classes in Europe, there exists a mythical Israel, reminiscent of the fabricated antisemitic stereotypes of the past, that has little to do with reality. They believe Israel isn't interested in peace, doesn't offer the Palestinians anything, opposes any real Palestinian state, intends to keep the West Bank (until Israel's withdrawal from all of the Gaza Strip they would have added that territory as well), and is led by intransigent hardliners. Such a conception was comprehensible--if not fully accurate--describing the situation in parts of the 1980s but has nothing to do with the last 20 years.

In 2010 they have no idea what Israel actually offered in the 1990s' peace process, or at the Camp David summit in 2000, or what President Bill Clinton offered with Israel's agreement in December 2000, or what Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proffered in 2008, or what is in the current Israeli government’s peace offer in 2010. All proposed the creation of an independent Palestinian state, the first three in close to 100 percent and the last three as equivalent to 100 percent (with some small, equal land swaps) in size to the pre-1967 West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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