Everything Kerry's doing to gain peace between Israel and Palestine is false. One needs to be on the ground in that part of the world to rightly analyse if peace could be that easily achieved. All sources point to the fact that Israel is actually using this peace campaign to stall and continue its expansion plans with no plan at all to make concessions to any action proposed by John Kerry. Infact it seems Kerry is aware of this but he deliberately keeps up the veneer of strongly supporting a peace plan to support two states with a shared capital in Jerusalem...could the sudden agitation to drive this peace deal be as a result of the failed attempt to usurp Assad in Syria? It does leave one to wonder exactly what's going on in Kerry's mind and the whole Knesset as it looks like Kerry's just pulling sources and words from the air without carrying out the necessary research and required on-the-ground intelligence. A look at the past month of May alone will give a vivid idea of how much hate exists between these 2 peoples and how unconciliatory Israel really is to grant peace a chance, even at this moment plans are ongoing to construct a road at a very sensitive area in the West Bank. Does that give any intent of easing settlements and giving peace a chance? The answer is obvious. Many activists have over time reiterated Western bias and unseriousness about the plight of the Palestinian people and the month of May alone highlights how much disinterest has been shown on Kerry's part on where the problems really lie...a good look would show both parties' unwillingness and their absolute mistrust for eachother. A moral and psychological repair is needed before any proposal for peace can be moved forward but an inner look into the workings and the mind of the Israeli ruling class will show clearly that Kerry's peace plan is a joke.
In a statement made by the Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Danny Danon in an interview at his office in the Knesset, Danon said, " Look at the government: there was never a government discussion, resolution or vote about the two-state solution,” Danon said. “If you will bring it to a vote in the government — nobody will bring it to a vote, it’s not smart to do it — but if you bring it to a vote, you will see the majority of Likud ministers, along with the Jewish Home [party], will be against it.”
“Today we’re not fighting it [Netanyahu’s declared goal of a Palestinian state], but if there will be a move to promote a two-state solution, you will see forces blocking it within the party and the government,” Danon further said. The deputy minister said “there is no majority for a two-state solution” among the 31 lawmakers that make up the Likud-Yisrael Beytenu Knesset faction. The Likud party’s central committee, about 10 years ago, passed a motion against the creation of a Palestinian state, Danon said, adding that “legally” the party was opposed to the concept of two states for two people.
In a much touted 2009 Bar-Ilan University speech, Netanyahu in principle agreed to a Palestinian state, on the condition that it be demilitarized and it recognizes Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. In recent weeks the prime minister has vowed to cooperate with US efforts to restart peace negotiations and has repeatedly called on Palestinian leaders to resume talks without preconditions.
On Tuesday, International Relations and Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz acknowledged that some members of the government oppose the two-state solution but asserted that “the entire cabinet” backs Netanyahu’s efforts to arrive at a two-state solution.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu made it very clear that he and his cabinet and the entire government are totally committed to his Bar-Ilan speech about [a] two state for two peoples solution,” Steinitz told reporters in Jerusalem. “And even if there are different positions within the coalition or the government, any member of the government is very well aware [of] and therefore committed to the prime minister’s vision, to the prime minister’s approach.”
Be that as it may, there's only so much Netanyahu can achieveif his government is not really in support of his plans. Several key members of the current Israeli government, including Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin, Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Deputy Knesset Speaker Moshe Feiglin, coalition chairman Yariv Levin and other senior Likud MKs, are staunchly opposed to a two-state solution, advocating instead the partial or complete annexation of the West Bank to Israel. The entire 12-member Jewish Home faction, including three ministers, likewise rejects the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
The members of the remaining parties in the coalition — Yesh Atid and Hatnua — endorse a two-state solution, yet together have merely 25 Knesset seats, compared to a combined 43 mandates of Jewish Home and Likud-Beytenu. Hatnua chairwoman and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who has been tasked with conducting peace talks with the Palestinians, acknowledged that some in the government “pray” for her failure but said that she is willing to attempt a peace agreement nonetheless.
“I know that I have the support of the prime minister in the attempts to relaunch the negotiations,” Livni told reporters last week. “You’re asking about the government? It’s a coalition, with different parties. I am going to have the support of some, and other would pray that maybe it would not succeed.”
Even Jewish Home chairman and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said he is “willing to live with negotiations,” Livni added. “So this is a window that I can work [with] — for a while. This is the coalition that was created, and frankly it is not the coalition that I wanted, and it was not, maybe, the coalition that the prime minister wanted. But this is what we have and we need to work with it.”
But Danon in the interview further said that there is currently zero debate about the two-state solution within the Likud because there is no “viable partner” on the Palestinian side and it seems unlikely that peace talks would resume any time soon. In recent weeks, Kerry has engaged in shuttle diplomacy in a serious bid to get the two sides to return to the negotiating table — so far to no avail. If Kerry were to succeed, however, and Netanyahu and the Palestinians agreed on the implementation of a two-state solution, “then you have a conflict” within the government, Danon said. “But today there is no partner, no negotiations, so it’s a discussion. It’s more of an academic discussion.”
Asked whether Netanyahu truly is in favor of a two-state solution, Danon replied that the prime minister tied the creation of a Palestinian state to conditions he is certain the Palestinians will not agree to. “He knows that in the near future it’s not possible.”
“The international community can say whatever they want, and we can do whatever we want,” he concluded.
It really isn't necessary to look further before one realises that Kerry's plan and Netanyahu's convictions are full of pretence or are aimed at gaining hold of information to further destabilize the Palestinians and this will of course generate more mistrust between these two peoples. A complete disregard for the international community's views gives further evidence that the US is only trying to save face but is in fact fully supportive of the Israeli government's final goal which is to wipe out the Palestinians and annex both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank completely.
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With excerpts from: timesofisrael.com
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