(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing the Congress on Tuesday, reiterated Israel's conditions for a peace accord with the Palestinians.
Here are the core terms, as well as previous Palestinian responses:
* Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
-- Israel was founded along the lines of a 1947 U.N. plan for the ethnic partition of then British-ruled Palestine, which Arabs rejected. Several wars on, Israel says peace requires Palestinians accept its Jewish character while Israelis, in turn, recognize the new Palestinian nation-state. The Palestinians rule this out, saying both that it is not their business to endorse the identity of another country and that they fear for the rights of Israel's Arab minority. Israel's Jewish self-determination also helps it argue that it does not have to admit Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war of its founding, and millions of their descendants.
* Israel will not return to the "indefensible boundaries" of 1967, the future Palestinian state must be demilitarized, there should be a long-term Israeli army presence along the Jordan River.
-- Palestinians say peace must be based on the 1967 boundaries and they will not accept any Israeli presence in their future state. It is unclear how or if the Palestinian Islamists who hold sway in the Gaza Strip could be disarmed.
* Israel rejects the "right of return" of Palestinian refugees.
-- With their descendants, the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian displaced in 1948 now number in their millions, and Israel says admitting them would amount to demographic suicide for the Jewish state. It says the Arabs were at fault for the war and that refugees should settle in the future Palestinian state or elsewhere. The Palestinians say the right of return is inalienable and insist Israel accept responsibility for the refugees' plight and negotiate over a wider resettlement and compensation deal.
* Israel keeps Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank.
-- Successive Israeli governments have expressed willingness to dismantle remote settlements in the occupied territory to make way for a Palestinian state, while annexing major clusters near the West Bank boundary. While willing to discuss land-swaps, the Palestinians have recoiled at agreeing to more sweeping Israeli territorial demands from the outset, especially before it is clear what they would get in return.
* Jerusalem remain Israel's "undivided capital."
-- Israel annexed East Jerusalem, captured, along with the West Bank, in the 1967 Middle East war, and calls the holy city its eternal and indivisible capital. This claim has not been recognized internationally, and the Palestinians want East Jerusalem as capital of their future state. That would include the walled Old City, which houses major Muslim, Jewish and Christian shrines.
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Standing ovation part of the satanic ritual. There were others also who protested but as you know Media didn't show.
Here are the core terms, as well as previous Palestinian responses:
* Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
-- Israel was founded along the lines of a 1947 U.N. plan for the ethnic partition of then British-ruled Palestine, which Arabs rejected. Several wars on, Israel says peace requires Palestinians accept its Jewish character while Israelis, in turn, recognize the new Palestinian nation-state. The Palestinians rule this out, saying both that it is not their business to endorse the identity of another country and that they fear for the rights of Israel's Arab minority. Israel's Jewish self-determination also helps it argue that it does not have to admit Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war of its founding, and millions of their descendants.
* Israel will not return to the "indefensible boundaries" of 1967, the future Palestinian state must be demilitarized, there should be a long-term Israeli army presence along the Jordan River.
-- Palestinians say peace must be based on the 1967 boundaries and they will not accept any Israeli presence in their future state. It is unclear how or if the Palestinian Islamists who hold sway in the Gaza Strip could be disarmed.
* Israel rejects the "right of return" of Palestinian refugees.
-- With their descendants, the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian displaced in 1948 now number in their millions, and Israel says admitting them would amount to demographic suicide for the Jewish state. It says the Arabs were at fault for the war and that refugees should settle in the future Palestinian state or elsewhere. The Palestinians say the right of return is inalienable and insist Israel accept responsibility for the refugees' plight and negotiate over a wider resettlement and compensation deal.
* Israel keeps Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank.
-- Successive Israeli governments have expressed willingness to dismantle remote settlements in the occupied territory to make way for a Palestinian state, while annexing major clusters near the West Bank boundary. While willing to discuss land-swaps, the Palestinians have recoiled at agreeing to more sweeping Israeli territorial demands from the outset, especially before it is clear what they would get in return.
* Jerusalem remain Israel's "undivided capital."
-- Israel annexed East Jerusalem, captured, along with the West Bank, in the 1967 Middle East war, and calls the holy city its eternal and indivisible capital. This claim has not been recognized internationally, and the Palestinians want East Jerusalem as capital of their future state. That would include the walled Old City, which houses major Muslim, Jewish and Christian shrines.
You can take my toilet Netanyaho if you want that also.
[yt]F02LHYtKsHA[/yt]
Standing ovation part of the satanic ritual. There were others also who protested but as you know Media didn't show.
