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Senior Likud leaders (and the President of the State of Israel Mr. Reuben Rivlin)
say No to the Palestinian state notion (re-posting our 2012 document on this)
and
President of National Council of Young Israel, Farley Weiss, writes up the topic in the Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/landedpages/printarticle.aspx?id=397972
A must-read, for example:
"The problem for President Obama is that he cannot provide a substantive reason why Israel should favor a Palestinian Arab state – basically because there isn't one.
A Palestinian Arab state would not bring peace and there is no demographic reason for Israel to cede more land. This is why President Obama's actions have caused such great alarm in Israel and in the American Jewish community. He is pushing for Israel to take a step that it rightly believes would jeopardize its security – not exactly the action of one who claims to have Israel's back, nor the position one would advocate if they hold the position that it is up to Israel and the parties in the region to decide their own futures.
The US policy toward Israel has always been predicated on the understanding that the Americans would never pressure Israel on an issue that threatened Israel's security. The new, and almost unprecedented level of pressure on Israel to acquiesce to a terrorist Palestinian Arab state that would certainly be threatening raises questions about the American commitment to Israel's security, not to speak of its respect for its democratic decisions.
The threat to not defend Israel at the UN raises questions about the administration's commitment.
To be certain, the crisis in US-Israeli relations is not due to a change of policy or commitments by the prime minister of Israel but rather to a change of policy and commitments by the US administration.
It is incumbent on the Obama administration to quickly alleviate the concerns that they themselves have now raised."
The US policy toward Israel has always been predicated on the understanding that the Americans would never pressure Israel on an issue that threatened Israel's security. The new, and almost unprecedented level of pressure on Israel to acquiesce to a terrorist Palestinian Arab state that would certainly be threatening raises questions about the American commitment to Israel's security, not to speak of its respect for its democratic decisions.
The threat to not defend Israel at the UN raises questions about the administration's commitment.
To be certain, the crisis in US-Israeli relations is not due to a change of policy or commitments by the prime minister of Israel but rather to a change of policy and commitments by the US administration.
It is incumbent on the Obama administration to quickly alleviate the concerns that they themselves have now raised."
