Netanyahu to insist on right to invade 'Palestinian state' if it is not demilitarized

June 15, 2009    http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/06/netanyahu-to-insist-on-right-to-invade.html

Netanyahu to insist on right to invade 'Palestinian state' if it is not demilitarized

This is incredible.

IMRA has learned that during the course of a telephone conference briefing today for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his top political advisor, Ron Dermer, Dermer told the group that Israel would insist it be guaranteed the right to invade the Palestinian state in the even that the state is not demilitarized.

Dermer did not explain either which body Israel would insist grant Israel this right (UN?) nor the mechanism for establishing that the Palestinian state is not demilitarized.

It should be noted that the United States has a long tradition of declining to recognize or certify Arab agreement violations when recognizing the violation would not serve American interests.

During the early years of Oslo, for example, when Congress made PA funding contingent on the issuing of a periodic report that the Palestinians were in compliance, the White House simply lied - in writing - solemnly notifying Congress that the Palestinians were in full compliance.

As Henry Kissinger said to President Richard Nixon back in 1970: "Israel, with her survival at stake, cannot afford to take chances.... The nature of the Israeli's situation is bound to influence their interpretation of ambiguous events. We, on the other hand, have an incentive to minimize such evidence, since the consequences of finding violations are so unpleasant. Violations force us to choose between doing something about them and thus risk the blowup of our initiative; or doing nothing and thus renege on our promises to Israel, posing the threat of her taking military action. Accordingly, we tend to lean over backwards to avoid the conclusion that the Arabs are violating the cease-fire unless the evidence is unambiguous." [Henry Kissinger "White House Years", page 587]

But of course. And you thought declaring that the 'Palestinian' state reichlet would be demilitarized would be the end of the game and not the beginning?