Haaretz.com (Israel) : "Israel's new peace camp is playing into Hamas' hands" by Akiva Eldar

• Published 03:48 13.02.12
• Latest update 03:48 13.02.12

Israel's new peace camp is playing into Hamas' hands

The 'elites' enthusiasticly buy into the idea that the Palestinians rejected the 'generous offer' that peace-loving Israeli leaders placed at their doorstep - and paid us back in terror.

By Akiva Eldar

There was a time - before Mahmoud Ahmadinejad starred here in the role of Hitler - when the "elites" were Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's number one enemy. He isn't all that sure about how to beat the Iranians, but he roundly defeats the "elites." Their leader, Ehud Barak, who drafted this "peace camp," grasped the hem of the prime minister's robe; Kadima was revealed to be a "cocktail party;" the Labor Party is fleeing from the Palestinian issue like the plague; and Yair Lapid pledges to maintain the "unity of Jerusalem." The only political challenge the Bibi has to deal with is the messianic wing of the right, the section that is helping the Likud look like a moderate centrist party.

The "elites" enthusiasticly buy into the idea that the Palestinians rejected the "generous offer" that peace-loving Israeli leaders placed at their doorstep - and paid us back in terror. Who remembers, for example, that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in the New York Times last September that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had not rejected his plan. So what if as far back as 10 years ago, the Palestinians adopted the Arab peace plan, which not only recognizes Israel in the 1967 borders, but also offers normal relations with all Arab countries. We only believe Arabs that call for Israel's destruction.....(....)....


http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/israel-s-new-peace-camp-is-playing-into-hamas-hands-1.412566


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