7 years ago Minister Liberman proposed NATO forces in Principles of
Permanent Agreement - has positioned changed since then?
9 February 2014
Dear Moshe Tzachi, Spokesman for FM Liberman,

On 28 October 2007, Yisrael Beiteinu Party Chairman and then Minister of
Strategic Affairs Avigdor Liberman announced his conditions for supporting a
final-status agreement at Annapolis, detailing it in a document "Principles
of Permanent Agreement" (full translation of the document follows).

In Paragraph 5 of the "Guiding Principles", Minister Liberman states that
"To the extent that the Palestinians find it difficult to establish an
effective security apparatus to end the terror activity, NATO will fill the
vacuum created."

Question: Does FM Liberman continue to believe that NATO can take such a
role in an final status agreement?

Best regards,
Dr. Aaron Lerner - www.imra.org.il
imra@netvison.net.il
PS: You can reply in Hebrew.
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Principles of Permanent Agreement

Introduction

The accepted assumption that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a
territorial dispute in its nature is mistaken in principle. It has already
been demonstrated beyond any doubt that in those instances in which we gave
up territory as in the case of Lebanon and Gaza, we were not rewarded with
either peace or security and instead received terror and Qassams in return.
If this conflict at the start of the 20th century was nationalist, with the
passage of time the conflict has become religious in nature. As a result,
in recent years the Israeli Palestinian conflict has become part of the
general conflict between the free world and radical Islam. To this should
be added the effect of the friction that exists any place in the world where
there is the phenomenon of minorities such as in Kosovo, the entire Balkan
area, the Kavkaz area of Russia or even Northern Ireland. Therefore, the
conflict between us and the Palestinians is particularly complicated and a
simplistic approach will bring to a dead end at best.

The Goals

The State of Israel's goals, for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinians
conflict, as I see it as:

1. The permanent borders of the State of Israel will be based on historic,
security, demographic and geographic parameters.

2. Every future diplomatic arrangement must insure the Jewish, Zionist and
democratic nature of the State of Israel.

3. Every future diplomatic arrangement will include the recognition of the
permanent borders by the international community, the neighboring states and
the Palestinians,.

4. Every future diplomatic arrangement will include a section that will
insure the end of the conflict, namely the absence of any reciprocal claims
of any kind in the future.

Guiding Principles

1. The entry into final arrangement negotiations requires first and foremost
the achievement of security for the State and Israel and a significant
improvement in the economic conditions of the Palestinians. Any attempt to
impose a diplomatic arrangement before a substantial end to terror, and in
particular the firing of Qassams, and the reality that there are more than
60% unemployed on the Palestinians side - is doomed to fail.

2. The solution of the conflict must be based on the agreement to exchange
land and populations and the creation of a reality of two nationally
homogenous states, such that the situation will not develop that that there
will one and a half Palestinian states and half a state for the Jews. This
principle is required particularly in light of the document presenting the
vision of the Monitoring Committee of the Israeli Arabs. One cannot accept
the reality in which a Palestinian state is established without one Jew
while the State of Israel becomes a bi-national state with more than 20%
minorities.

3. The permanent borders of the State of Israel will insure the continuation
of a Jewish majority and democratic rule, and will give long term security
for all its citizens.

4. The permanent agreement that will be signed between the sides will
constitute a joint and international agreement and will replace Security
Council resolutions 242 and 338.

5. The international community is obligated to be a party to the agreement,
while giving guarantees and active involvement in security, state and
economic affairs. To the extent that the Palestinians find it difficult to
establish an effective security apparatus to end the terror activity, NATO
will fill the vacuum created. The United States and the European Union will
invest directly in the Palestinian economy in order to insure a proper
standard of living and workplaces for the Palestinians.

6. Jerusalem Israel's capital, the Holy Basin, whose borders, to the East -
Mount of Olives and Mount Scopus; North: Sheikh Jarrah; South - Silwan and
Mount Zion, will remain under full Israeli sovereignty, while implementing
arrangements that will enable free worship for all religions. In the
permanent arrangements, the principle of land and population exchanges will
also apply to the refugee camps and the villages near Jerusalem.

7. The State of Israel will not permit passage between Gaza and Judea and
Samaria via it sovereign territory. This situation is in accord with the
reality that existed before the 7th of June 1967 and even the reality prior
to the establishment of the State of Israel.

8. Refugees - The State of Israel will not permit the right of return. Not
in principle and not in humanitarian cases. This matter is absolute and not
subject to negotiation.