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Peace Process

New Israeli FM: 'Yes, yes, yes to Palestine'

Kadima accelerates quest to divide the Land of Israel


By Ryan Jones
January 23, 2006

Israel?s zealous new foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, continued Monday to push ahead her Kadima Party's agenda to sever the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria from the State of Israel at the earliest possible opportunity.

?We must say yes, yes, yes to a Palestinian nation-state? on these ancient Jewish lands, Livni enthusiastically told participants in the Herzliya Conference.

Trying to balance her remarks, Livni went on to say Israel should make sure ?Palestine? does not become a ?terrorist state that continues to threaten Israel.?

She did not, however, say just how Israel could try to ?make sure? of this.

Earlier in the day, former IDF chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon indicated that this was in any case a lost cause.

Citing last summer's Gaza withdrawal, and recalling the high hopes Israel's government and the West had in Palestinian Authority rule of the area, Ya'alon pointed out the coastal strip is now a virtual ?Hamastan, Hizb'allastan and al-Qaedastan.?

He said the problem is that Israel's surrender of land is ?seen as a retreat from the threat? of Islamic terror, making it impossible for the Jewish state to ?create a credible deterrence? against such aggression, and encouraging the nation's enemies ?to attack us.?

The general insisted the situation will not change simply because Livni and her colleagues offer the Palestinian Arabs a state, explaining that the true source of the conflict is the ?Arabs? refusal to recognize Israel.?

Speaking at the same conference Saturday evening, Nobel Laureate Professor Israel Aumann concurred that Israel is asking for trouble with its inexplicable rush to divide the land in the name of ?peace.?

?The very act of running headlong after the longed-for peace is precisely that which distances it from us,? the top game theorist said.

Meanwhile, as Wednesday's ?Palestinian? parliamentary election neared, experts and pollsters were still predicting high chances for the Hamas terrorist organization to win a commanding number of mandates, putting Livni's visions of a peaceful ?Palestine? further out of reach.

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