{"id":327412,"date":"2017-09-23T18:59:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T17:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israels-stall-forever-peace-plan\/"},"modified":"2017-09-23T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T17:59:37","slug":"israels-stall-forever-peace-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israels-stall-forever-peace-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Stall-Forever \u2018Peace\u2019 Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Despite boosting the idea of Mideast peace, President Trump shields Israel in its resistance to a workable agreement with the Palestinians, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explained in a Sept. 19 speech.<\/p>\n<p>By Paul R. Pillar<\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, whom the President has entrusted with, among many other things, searching for an Israeli-Palestinian peace, said regarding that task: \u201cWe don\u2019t want a history lesson. How does that help us get peace? Let\u2019s not focus on that. We\u2019ve read enough books.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18522\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/palestinemaps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/palestinemaps-300x212.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18522\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/palestinemaps-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/palestinemaps-160x113.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/palestinemaps.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18522\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/palestinemaps-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/palestinemaps-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/palestinemaps-160x113.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/palestinemaps.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Controversial maps showing the shrinking territory available to the Palestinians. Hardline Israelis insist that there are no Palestinian people, that all the land belongs to Israel and that it therefore inaccurate to show any \u201cPalestinian lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He\u2019s wrong.\u00a0Without taking into account the history of this conflict, one will never understand it adequately, much less be able to identify formulas that will furnish the necessary respect for, and meet the minimum needs of, both sides.<\/p>\n<p>One could go way back, but let us instead skip to the point in history when war-exhausted Britain, responsible for administering the mandate of Palestine, was facing increasing violence from the contending communities of, on one hand, Arabs who had lived in Palestine for centuries, and on the other hand, Zionists who had begun to settle there over the previous few decades.<\/p>\n<p>Britain dumped the problem into the lap of the United Nations, where the General Assembly approved in 1947 a partition plan for Palestine that would create two new states, one controlled by Jews and one by Arabs.\u00a0The resolution approving the plan is the one internationally certified birth certificate of the State of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The population of Palestine at the time was about two-thirds Arab and slightly less than one-third Jewish, with the bulk of the latter representing immigration in the 30 years since the Balfour Declaration.\u00a0Jews owned less than 7 percent of the land.\u00a0Under the partition plan, however, the Jewish state would receive 56 percent of Palestine and the Arab state 43 percent, with the remaining one percent being an international zone in Jerusalem.\u00a0The population&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/09\/23\/israels-stall-forever-peace-plan\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite boosting the idea of Mideast peace, President Trump shields Israel in its resistance to a workable agreement with the Palestinians, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explained in a Sept. 19 speech. By Paul R. Pillar President Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, whom the President has entrusted with, among many other things, searching for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327412","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\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}