Write conservation between you and prime minister about your problems
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A Conversation Between Friends:
Dear Mr. Prime Minister…
Let me begin this by stating that I agree with most of your positions–and that’s why I am a bit nervous about the latest news reports coming out of Jerusalem.
Unlike too many starry-eyed Leftist members of our Tribe, and like the virtual father of your political party, you have kept your head mostly above the sand in terms of what is and what is not possible regarding Arab enemies who reject the very idea of a state of the Jews in the neighborhood, regardless of its size. The problems you face are not about building freezes…
I am thus puzzled at your apparent caving in to the pressure you have been continuously under from the Obama White House and a perpetually hostile State Department to return to the 1949 armistice lines, not borders, that you said you would not do. Mr. Obama is on record repeatedly stating that Israel would be crazy not to accept the Saudi Peace (of the grave) Plan. A total return to the Auschwitz lines (making Israel 9 to 15 miles wide) is one of its key provisions.
Yes, I realize that you think that you have qualified this important concession via a number of safeguards–like demanding Israel’s recognition as a Jewish State, noting the ’49 lines as just a starting point for the discussions, and so forth.
I do understand what you think will happen…
But, chances are, it won’t.
An astute friend of mine and myself (no slouch either, extensive doctoral studies in this field, widely-published, etc. and so forth) were having a chat about this.