President says that Israel ‘doomed’ unless negotiations with the Palestinians leading to a peace agreement begin in the immediate future.
“Whoever accepts the basic principle of the 1967 lines will receive international support from the world,” Peres said. “Whoever rejects it will lose the world.”
President Shimon Peres is concerned that Israel might become a binational state, in which case, he warned, it would cease to exist as a Jewish state.
“I’m concerned about the continued freeze [in the peace talks],” Peres said to people who visited him this week. “I’m concerned that Israel will become a binational state. What is happening now is total foot-dragging. We’re about to crash into the wall. We’re galloping at full speed toward a situation where Israel will cease to exist as a Jewish state.”
Peres celebrated four years as president this week. He has three years to go until he decides on his next career move. But people who met him this week found the president’s mood far from festive. He prophesied that Israel would be doomed unless negotiations with the Palestinians leading to a peace agreement began in the immediate future.
Categories: Israel, Middle East, Palestine
Of course Israel is doomed as a Jewish state, and the grave is dug by the Jewish politicians themselves. As they are not supporting actively the creation of a Palestinian state (2-states-solution) there remains only one state and that state will have a non-Jewish majority. It cannot be an Apartheid State for ever. Sooner or later a ‘one person one vote’ solution will need to be found. But do not worry: The coming Arab President of PalestinoIsrael will treat the Jewish minority better than the Jews treated the Arab minority.
It is a false hope of most of the Muslims that Israel is doomed and it will cease to exist. Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Ahmadies can openly profess that they are Muslims and can give call to prayer five times a day on the loud speaker. May God help the people who have allowed Ahmadies to practice their religion.
This is very interesting discussion and we certainly want to be a forum to foster Universal Brotherhood.
We also stand for 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for every Homo-sapien on the planet earth. If there is extra-terresterial life found in coming decades, we will deal with those issues at that time.
Peace and tolerance and human rights are our mantra.