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Friday, March 4, 2011
Weekly Commentary: PM Netanyahu needs a Plan B

Weekly Commentary: PM Netanyahu needs a Plan B
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 3 March 2011

Here is the argument:

If Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu doesn’t get in front of the ball the
U.N. will declare a sovereign Palestinian state encompassing the entire West
Bank (including eastern Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip in a few months.
Sanctions will follow to force Israel to respect the sovereignty of
“Palestine” in all facets of its expression.

The assertion that, if created, a sovereign Palestinian state would “live
side by side in peace with Israel” is faith-based rather than logic-based,
so debating it is doomed to failure.

The firestorm sweeping the Middle East, with the very real possibility that
radical Islamic regimes may ultimately bracket the Jewish State isn’t
relevant, the argument continues, because President Obama insists that
analysis ignore the very existence of “radical Islam”.

Netanyahu thus, the argument goes, has no choice but to propose a sovereign
Palestinian state to pre-empt these developments.

Here’s the problem: None of the above addresses that problem that a
sovereign Palestinian state would inevitably serve as the launching pad for
a deadly assault to destroy Israel.

This is not the assessment of a radical right minority.

There’s a wall-to-wall consensus in Israel on this point. And polls of the
Palestinians show that they do indeed see the creation of a Palestinian
state next to Israel as no more than one step in the process that will
ultimately lead to Israel’s demise.

And since a sovereign state, once created, continues to exist even if it
violates the agreements and understanding that were the basis for its coming
into being, the verbiage that accompanies the creation of the state can’t
overcome this fundamental problem.

Yes, the situation is challenging.

But a plan that takes us out of the frying pan and into the fire is not the
solution.

We need a “Plan B”.

It’s not too late.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(Mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-7604719/Fax 972-3-7255730
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