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Originally Posted by ratbastid
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What choice?
There is nothing new here. It is a rehash of the
2002 Arab League proposal in which Israel, as a pre-condition to negotiations, is required to make major concessions and the neighboring hostile Arab state are not.
Israel would be required give up territory including the strategically vital Golan Heights (btw, Iran is not a member of the Arab League and would love to have the Golan returned to its puppet, Syria) and agree to the "right of return" of Palestinians (which could effectively give Israel a 40% Arab minority population and a majority within a generation or two). Both of these issues can and should be subject to negotiation, but not pre-conditions.
And the Arab states have no pre-condition to take action against terrorists that they harbor (and fund, in many instances)...but they may then "normalize" relations with Israel (the Arab League will not specifically agree to language that recognize Israel's right to exist - they suspended Egypt for such language in the Camp David accords).
There is not an Israeli politician, from Labor to Likud, who would agree to such one-side concessions before even coming to the negotiation table.
I sure as hell wouldnt.