[lit-ideas] What was really Rabin's program ?
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:48:19 -0800 (PST)
Some excerpts from a Rabin speech in the Knesset.
Personally I respected Yitzhak Rabin and mourned his
death, but his program was not nearly as liberal as we
might perhaps imagine. O.K.
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We view the permanent solution in the framework of
State of Israel which
will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as
it was under the rule
of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian
entity which will be
a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in
the Gaza Strip and the
West Bank.
We would like this to be an entity which is less than
a state, and which
will independently run the lives of the Palestinians
under its authority.
The borders of the State of Israel, during the
permanent solution, will be
beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War.
We will not return to
the 4 June 1967 lines.
And these are the main changes, not all of them, which
we envision and want
in the permanent solution:
A. First and foremost, united Jerusalem, which will
include both Ma'ale
Adumim and Givat Ze'ev -- as the capital of Israel,
under Israeli
sovereignty, while preserving the rights of the
members of the other faiths,
Christianity and Islam, to freedom of access and
freedom of worship in their
holy places, according to the customs of their faiths.
B. The security border of the State of Israel will be
located in the Jordan
Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.
C. Changes which will include the addition of Gush
Etzion, Efrat, Beitar and
other communities, most of which are in the area east
of what was the "Green
Line," prior to the Six Day War.
D. The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea
and Samaria, like the
one in Gush Katif.
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=20239
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