What is Obama’s Peace Plan?
Posted August 31, 2009
A draft of the Obama peace plan, which is expected to be released at the UN Assembly meeting in New York, or at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, has surfaced. The state of Palestine is recognized by more than 100 nations, and the United States intends to wait until 2011 before recognition if the peace process succeeds.
The 11,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israel will be released over a period of three years, longer than Guantanamo Bay. The question we want to ask is: will Marwan Barghoutti be released in time to partake in the negotiations? The answer to this is no.
Netanyahu will send his special envoy Yitzhak Molcho and Defense Minstry chief of staff Mike Herozog to Washington next week to again discuss again the
U.S. demand that Israel implement a settlement freeze. But, will the Israeli envoy come here to question “how”, in regards to the settlement freeze, or “why”?
The International Middle East Media Center’s website leaked the alleged draft of Obama’s peace plan given to them by Palestinian Legislator Hasan Khreisha.
According to Khreisha, the draft includes ten main points detailed as follows:
1. International presence in the Jordan Valley, Palestinian Plains area, and other areas in the West Bank.
2. Annexing some parts of East Jerusalem to remain under Israeli control, while Muslim holy site would be under Arab control.
3. All Palestinian factions would be dissolved and transformed into political parties.
4. Large settlement blocs in the West Bank would remain under Israeli control, while negotiations would be conducted within three months of the plan agreement?, to discuss the future of smaller settlements.
5. Several areas in the West Bank would be disarmed, and Israeli would maintain aerial control.
6. Intensifying the Palestinian-Israeli security coordination.
7. The Palestinian Authority would not be allowed to have military alliances with regional countries.
8. The United States would guarantee the establishment of a Palestinian State in the summer of 2011.
9. Allowing an agreed upon number of refugees to return, and to be settled in the Plains area and other areas in the West Bank, particularly in the cities of Ramallah and Nablus. A special fund for supporting the refugees would also be established.
10. Israel starts releasing the Palestinian political detainees immediately after the peace deal is signed. Three years would be allocated for the release of the detainees.
Israel is expected to accept these terms on the premise that the Obama Administration adopts a stronger position towards halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The same nuclear program that US chief of intelligence has confirmed in his findings in a 2007 report, did not exist.
A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), issued in November 2007 by the sixteen US intelligence agencies, clarified that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
Iran stopped increasing the count of operational enrichment centrifuges at its
Natanz facility roughly three months ago.
No one can be sure this is the final draft of the Obama peace plan, but it has the resonance of credibility. The plan fails to address boarders, water, trade and the annexation wall. This might be the plan in that was expected around mid-August, but in five or six weeks there are bound to be changes. So far, there has been no reaction from either party, Israeli or Palestinian.
CNI believes that besides its many other flaws, the peace plan should have begun with ending the US/Israel siege of Gaza. That would have been a signal that the US and Israel are really serious about peace in the Holy Land.
As history reflects, Palestine has had many states, Jordan was one of them!
Israel (Little Russia) will never concede relinquishing any land once new homes are built. We Americans, and other people throughout the world are tired of the unrest that exists among the Palestinians and Israelis.
All Palestinians should be happy that the settlements are being built! The standard of living is no doubt better than it was. All Palestinians and Israelis should be forced to live together in these structures side by side. Strict enforcement proceedings should be put in place to ensure safety!
Palestinians should be thankful that new homes are / could be made available for occupancy for all…
G_D, please send a redeemer!
Is Rabbi Hurt delusional or just braindead?
Palestinians live in Israeli built settlements? I can just picture Israelies welcoming Palestinians to live in their illegal settlements with open arms@! And, just how happy would you be to move into a housing project built on what used to be your farm or grazing area by the people that killed off many of your relatives and has many more imprisoned? The longer this nightmare Israel have created in the mid-east goes on, the more amazed I become at the incredibly inhumane, self-serving roteness of the majority of Israelies to allow this unbeleivable situation to go on for so long.
Charles Booher
The land never belonged to the eastern european jews, they claim it through forced occupation! Rabbi Hurt’s plan should be implemented, at least it would be a start…Are you delusional or braindead?
All Jews must not follow the talmud! Oral law is full of fallacies. Interpretation is that of Satan. Eastern European jews, who uphold the talmud are followers of satan. Modern day jewry is not the same as that of the ancient jews. In fact, the pharisees oral tradition, stopped at the base of Mt. Sinai. The pharisees made the law of G_D of none effect. The pharisees role of regulation was reconstructed expelling all jews from Palestine. There will never be peace in Isael until Eastern European Jews denounce zionism!