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A best-selling author and former political consultant to Benjamin Netanyahu says the Israeli leader’s recent foreign policy speech clearly illustrates that Netanyahu doesn’t want to continue the same foreign policy mistakes of the past.
During his Sunday night speech, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attached some tough conditions to any agreement he may sign regarding a Palestinian state. In the nationally broadcast speech, Netanyahu insisted that a future Palestine be demilitarized, and rejected the aspirations of Palestinian refugees to return to homes in Israel.
Those conditions, along with demands that Israel retain sovereignty over a united Jerusalem and continue to expand West Bank settlements, won him support from those who oppose the dividing up of Israel’s covenant land.
Joel Rosenberg is the author Inside the Revolution: How the Followers of Jihad, Jefferson, and Jesus are Battling to Dominate the Middle East and Transform the World. The Messianic Jewish believer says clearly Netanyahu does not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, when Israel agreed to withdraw from southern Lebanon and Gaza.
“Israel has given two large tracts of land to its neighbors in the last nine years — and it has gotten more than 14,000 rockets and missiles as a thank-you present,” Rosenberg points out. “So there doesn’t seem to be any particular reason at this moment for Israel to give more land, tangible assets for more promises of peace, none of which have been forthcoming.”
Indeed, the Palestinians have already rejected the conditions laid out by Netanyahu in his speech.
