Israel is currently engaged (September 2011) in a major political / diplomatic effort to prevent a demand of an international recognition of the Palestinians as a political entity in the UN.
What for ?
To postpone an inevitable development ?
According to polls – two thirds of the Israelis support a solution of “2 states for 2 people”.
A Palestinian entity would not be a viable one anyway without having a minimal economic infrastructure.
Israel could have contributed to such a development, and would have gained an overwhelming support of the world to such a move.
So why would the Israeli government act against its own interests, as it seems to be ?
I can only offer my personal evaluation:
Benjamin Netanayahu, Israel's P.M. bases his majority on hawkish parties lead by Messianic rather than pragmatic ideologies: Jewish presence in Judea & Samaria (West Bank) is a fulfillment of god's intentions (and where is god's role in preventing violence and suffering...)
A solution for a future fate of 2.5 million Palestinian inhabitants residing Judea & Samaria is not suggested by these hawkish parties.
Benjamin Netanayahu knows, in my humble opinion, that sooner or later Israel would withdraw from Judea & Samaria (West Bank) and the Palestinians would ultimately establish an independent political entity. By supporting the idea he would lose his majority, his power, his good life, his central position.
There could be a worse possibility:
Mrs. Sarah Netanayahu does not allow him....
Ze'ev Back
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Ze'ev Back
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