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Backing up the argument: |
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Several Israeli and Palestinian private groups and individuals have
drafted proposals for peace agreements. The Israeli government examines
these proposals, but can only consider accepting them if they are
realistic and acceptable to Israeli voters. |
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The Geneva Accord
is not based on any serious attempt to learn lessons from Oslo's
breakdown. |
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The Geneva architects ignore the launching of Qassam rockets on
Israeli residential areas, like those which have already struck Ashkelon
and Sderot. |
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The Israeli Geneva architects claim to have reached an agreement
that will let Israel control the numbers of Palestinian refugees
returning to Israel. But the very recognition of the principle of
a "right of return", based on Geneva's explicit reliance
on UN General Assembly Resolution 194 of 1948 and
on the resolutions of the Beirut Arab Summit of 2002, is erroneous.
It sets up a trap by which it will be almost impossible to put a limit
on the number of refugees allowed to return to Israel. In short, it
undermines Israel’s very right to exist as a Jewish state. |
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The Geneva proposals regarding the Palestinian refugees are a trap
for Israel, for if an Israeli government were to refuse to fully implement
the decisions of the international committee concerning the "return"
of tens or hundreds of thousands of refugees to Israeli territory,
the Palestinians retain the right, according to the Geneva Accord,
to continue the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and their struggle as
they did before the agreement was signed. This is a formula for future
disarray. |
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There is no conditionality in the timetable of Geneva's implementation.
According to the agreement, Israel's complete withdrawal is to take
place even if terrorism persists. Of course, Israel has the right
to complain to the international committee, but it may not halt its
withdrawal, even if Israel has solid confirmation that the Palestinian
Authority is not lifting a finger to combat terrorism or if there
are intelligence indications that it is actually providing tangible
assistance to terrorist groups. Even under these conditions, Israel
is required to transfer territories vital to its national defense
and to concede its ability to fight terrorism. |
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The Geneva Accord denies the Jewish right to live as a minority
in the Palestinian state, but recognizes the Arab right to live as
a minority in the Jewish state. On the one hand, it calls for forcibly
expulsing Jews from the West Bank, but on the other hand it sets a
mechanism for swelling the 20% Arab minority currently living in Israel
through a disguised implementation of the “right of return.”
The two-state solution does not imply the absence of minorities, but
the Geneva Accord recognizes the minority rights of the Arabs while
denying them to the Jews.
( See
background ) |
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