5-7-2014Abbas’ generous offer to Israel - Noam Sheiza +972

http://972mag.com/abbas-generous-offer-to-israel/90589/

  

The details of the unprecedented offer Israel got from the Palestinian leadership have been revealed – along with the Israeli response. Still, if you only listen to the Israeli media, you might think it was Abbas who got cold feet.

 

Abbas' offers to Netanyahu were based on previous ideas like the Clinton Parameters and the informal Geneva Accord. Yet the fact that they were raised in a formal way, in final-status negotiations by the leader of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, is extremely meaningful. Even more meaningful is the fact that Hamas was willing to recognize and join a leadership that made such offers….

If you add the Arab Peace Initiative to Abbas' offer, one must conclude that Israel has never before faced such an opportunity to achieve regional and international legitimacy for its military and political achievements in the last century.

The Israeli leadership chose to pass on it all, and the Israeli public has little problem with that. 

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

 

 

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