> But Juan's point is that there's a palpable distance between this Oslo
> idea and the Irgun ideas that are usually attributed to Emmanuel. He's
> a mainstream Peace Now type, not the second coming of Elliot Abrams.
Half of the members of the old Likud now have these views, though. Including the outgoing prime minister of Israel. Here's something taken almost at random from Peace Now's "positions" page. Is this something you could picture Rahm saying?
> Peace Now supports Israel’s right to build a security fence along the
> Green Line. However the actual fence continues to be constructed deep
> within Palestinian territory.
> The current route of the fence is intended to destroy all chances of a
> future peace settlement with the Palestinians and to annex as much
> land as possible from the West Bank.
> Thus the method of creating facts on the ground by annexing land to
> existing settlements continues, this time by using the route of the fence.
>
> The current fence may currently save lives of Israelis but in the long
> run will only deepen the conflict between the two peoples. This fence
> will only increase the blood to be split on both sides and continue
> the sacrificing of Israeli and Palestinian lives for the settlements.
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