Readers Write: UN resolution hurts chances of peace in Israel

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Karen Rubin (Dec. 30, 2016) says that the resolution in the Security Council that the Obama administration let be passed is the way “toward Israeli-Palestinian peace.”

She is wrong.

The agreed upon formula has always been “land for peace” — Israel gives back land and the Palestinians make peace.

But now Israel has no land to give — the United Nations — with  Obama’s approval said that all the land — no -— more than all the land — that the Palestinians should receive in an honest peace negotiation has, by that resolution, been given it to the Palestinians.

And if Israel agrees and goes back to the borders demanded by that resolution will that bring peace?

Not according to the Palestinians.

Secretary Kerry set out a number of principles for peace one of which is two states, one for Jews and one for Palestinians.

This of course has been repeatedly turned down by the Palestinians who still demand a “Right of Return” for Palestinians that lived in what Kerry thinks should be Israel and their descendants.

If this ever came to pass it would make Jews a minority in what Kerry says should be “a Jewish state”.

Let’s hope that if the Right of Return is brought to the Security Council before Jan. 20 that Obama won’t again have the United States abstain.

Of course Israel won’t go along with such resolutions which would lead to its destruction. So how does the recent UN action bring us closer to peace?

Gerald Deutsch

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