{"id":141567,"date":"2014-11-06T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=141567"},"modified":"2014-11-06T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:44:34","slug":"israels-annexation-plan-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/israels-annexation-plan-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Annexation Plan for Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>John V. Whitbeck<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Naftali Bennett, Israel\u2019s Minister of the Economy and leader of the Jewish Home Party, a major component of the current Israeli government, is widely seen as the politician on the rise in Israel and a potential successor to Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister after the next Israeli elections.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 6, he published a highly significant opinion article, entitled \u201cFor Israel, two-state is no solution,\u201d in the <i>International New York Times. <\/i>In this article, Bennett argues that \u201cfor its security, Israel cannot withdraw from more territory and cannot allow for the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank\u201d and then proceeds to propose his own \u201cfour-step plan\u201d for peace.<\/p>\n<p>His \u201cpeace plan\u201d notably includes Israel\u2019s unilateral annexation of Area C, approximately 61 percent of the West Bank, so as to \u201creduce the scope of the territory in dispute, making it easier to reach a long-term agreement in the future.\u201d In his vision of peace, any \u201cPalestinian entity\u201d on residual ink spots of Areas A and B of the West Bank \u201cwill be short of a state. It will not control its own borders and will not be allowed to have an army.\u201d As for Gaza, \u201cit cannot be a party to any agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennett concludes: \u201cI am aware that the world will not immediately accept this proposal. It seems to go against everything Israel, the Palestinians and the international community have worked toward over the last 20 years. But I will work to make this plan government policy because there is a new realty in the Middle East, which has brought an end to the viability of the Oslo peace process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One may hope that Bennett\u2019s blast of honesty will blow away any residual illusions within those Western governments which have for decades been blocking the realization of a Palestinian state on the ground by arguing that a Palestinian state can only exist, even on a purely legal level, as a result of negotiations with Israel \u2014 i.e., after almost half a century of belligerent occupation, with the prior consent of the occupying power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2014\/11\/06\/israels-annexation-plan-for-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John V. Whitbeck Naftali Bennett, Israel\u2019s Minister of the Economy and leader of the Jewish Home Party, a major component of the current Israeli government, is widely seen as the politician on the rise in Israel and a potential successor to Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister after the next Israeli elections. On Nov. 6, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-141567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}