(Jerusalem Post) Liat Collins - Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is again negotiating with the Palestinians. His partner is former PA foreign minister Nasser al-Kidwa, Arafat's nephew, who, in 2004, launched the campaign against Israel in the International Court of Justice for building the security fence as a means of tackling terrorism. The plan is similar to the one drawn up between Abbas and Olmert in 2008, with 4% of the total territory of the West Bank annexed by Israel, with Israeli territory being swapped in its place, including a corridor linking Gaza and the West Bank. Having a Palestinian corridor cutting across Israel will not improve its security. The plans for Jerusalem would make all Arab neighborhoods that were not part of Israel before 1967 part of Palestinian Jerusalem. The plan also calls for the involvement of five countries in control of the redivided Israeli capital. The idea is to push Israelis tired of the war, and the West enmeshed in its own socio-economic and political problems, to agree to something - anything - that would theoretically make the century-old problem disappear. The Knesset in July passed a declaration - supported by members of the opposition - against establishing a Palestinian state, saying it would present an existential threat to Israel and, if created now, would be perceived as rewarding terrorism and would strengthen Hamas, encouraging further massacres like Oct. 7 and furthering Islamist jihadist control in the Middle East. The Middle East doesn't need another "peace process." It needs peace. And that requires genuine partners, not people who continue to incite, pray for, and pay for the destruction of the sovereign Jewish state.
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