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June 12th, 2015 
Awake Goy One of Netanyahu’s new talking points, a variation of “no partner for peace” (rehashed because nothing is new in hasbara-land, propaganda gets recycled) is how he really wants a peace process and Palestine is refusing to negotiate. The other day the Prime Minister said the Palestinians “refuse to negotiate and then try to get boycotts on Israel for there not being negotiations, which they refuse to enter. Catch 22.”
Or as Abe Foxman put it a day or so later in New York: Israel needs to “come up with some creative dynamic approach for peace.”
But something slipped out during a meeting between Netanyahu and Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek on Monday. Netanyahu said:
“Justice and freedom for the Palestinians are incompatible with the existence of the State of Israel”
How do you fit a square peg in a round hole? How do you simultaneously kickstart more negotiations while stating at the jump that freedom and justice for Palestinians is inconsistent with the idea of Israel’s existence?
The sad truth, for all those scurrying around having conferences to tank BDS, is (as Ronen Bergman writes):
“The main problem in the fight against the boycott is not the marketing but the product. In the world of 2015, occupation would never be accepted.
So forget the new packaging. It’s the borders, stupid. I know how Netanyahu could get our attention. Name the borders for this pie-in-the-sky two state solution. You want negotiations? Cough up your proposal up front for a Palestinian State. No more “without preconditions,” or “final status issues” pushed down the road.
Cut to the chase, and if you want “negotiations” (which we all know you could care jack about except that it will enhance your image and drag out these last months of the Obama presidency), actually lay your cards on the table, tell us where your borders are, and what those wonderful landswaps are. Because American memories are short, but they’re not that short.
The truth is, they’ve got nothing. Fresh off Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban’s Las Vegas weekend, we’re already starting to see the fruits of their labor roll in and there’s nothing but a bunch of handwringers trying to find a way to get Americans to like them. Foxman said, “There needs to be a lot more sensitivity” from Israel to the U.S. Really. Well: How about not flinging anti-Semite ad hominems at your adversaries, or playing the victim card while expanding settlement construction, or killing Palestinian children, or threatening to kill more Lebanese civilians, or helping Saudi Arabia crush Yemen. Oh, and making stupid (albeit truthful) speeches that expose your racism.
It’s all so… last century. There’s nothing fresh. No, other than promoting the meme that they’re just at the edge of their seats and eager to start another round of negotiations. #Fail.
Which leaves the ball in the Palestinians’ court.
Source Article from http://mondoweiss.net/2015/06/palestinians-incompatible-existence
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