Off Topic: Ya’alon: If we won’t reach deal with Palestinians, ‘we’ll manage’
Off Topic: Ya’alon: If we won’t reach deal with Palestinians, ‘we’ll manage’ – ynetnews.
After surprisingly not leaving plenum hall when Iran’s top diplomat addressed conference, defense minister says Israel, moderate Arab states share common enemy – Iran, stresses settlements are not obstacle to peace
Eldad Beck
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Under the threat of boycott against Israel and the American initiative to compensate Arab Jews, Ya’alon brought about another piece in the Middle East puzzle, noting that Israel and the Mideast’s Sunni-Arab camp, led by Saudi Arabia, share many interests and common enemies, such as Iran, Shiites, radical Islam and al-Qaeda .
Contrary to the years-long tradition in which Israeli leaders ostentatiously left conferences and events in which Iranian officials spoke, Defense Minister Ya’alon stayed in the Munich security conference plenary hall as Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addressed the conference and spoke about the situation in his country.
Defense Minister Ya’alon stays in plenary hall as Iranian Foreign Minister addresses conference. Photo: Ariel Hermoni
Ya’alon even took a seat in the front row and listened to the top Iranian minister, as he was invited to address the conference immediately after the debate on Iran.
Despite the alleged gesture, Ya’alon made clear in his remarks that Israel sees Iran as an enemy shared with more moderate Arab states. In the past, as well as in this event, representatives from Middle Eastern countries, even those who hold ties with Israel, avoided publicly appearing with Israeli officials in any one of the Munich conference’s panels.
Ya’alon stressed in his speech that “I support the negotiations, I support any political engagement, but we should tell the truth to ourselves and not delude ourselves and to deceive ourselves regarding President Mahmoud Abbas ‘ intentions,” who he claims is “running away” as Yasser Arafat did during the 2000 Camp David Summit.
He further emphasized that Abbas was forced to join the negotiations table by US Secretary of State John Kerry and refuses to answer basic questions regarding the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and the matter of right of return.
According to him, “settlements are not the obstacle to peace. The settlements include today less than 5% of the territory in the Palestinian arena. If we are going for peace – we have Arabs living side by side with us in Galilee and Jaffa and Acre – we don’t deny this right.
“Why does the Palestinian leadership insist on getting the territory without Jews? If we have to live together, we can benefit from each other.”
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WarSclerotic 
February 2, 2014 at 9:29 PM
What a difference in knowledge of the Middle East between Moshe Ya’alon and John Kerry!
A New Strategy for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
http://jcpa.org/article/a-new-strategy-for-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/
Moshe Ya’alon: They are completely unlike the former Soviet Union
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/06/moshe-yaalon-they-are-completely-unlike.html
February 2, 2014 at 11:24 PM
Hamas is the obstacle to peace destroy Hamas and the PA will have no choice although hams and the PA are not allies on paper when it comes to israel they are close in a crisis as this serves irans interests
February 3, 2014 at 5:36 AM
Why is the israeli leadership playing the game of their enemies ? Why do they talk about the socalled ”palestinians” ? Fact is that the myth about the socalled ”palestinian” people is a smart lie, introduced by the master terrorist arafat. His goal was clear : to deny Israel the ownership of its homeland – Israel. Fact is : never in history there was a ”palestinian people” NOR a ”palestinian nation”, NEVER ! There were the philistins from crete, but thats something else. The socalled ”palestinians” are arabs, most of them came to Israel seeking work after the Jews came back to Israel in greater numbers and built up the land again. They are arabs, nothing less, nothing more. They have no right to the land of Israel whatsoever – arafat started the lie of the socalled ”palestinians”
to destroy Israel. The basically Jew hating world is more than willing to buy this lie (against better knowledge) – in WW2 the world was looking after the jewish gold/money/businesses they could steal from the Jews they sent to the gas – today the world ( the USA, the west etc ) are probably hoping to be able to steal the oil/gas fields of Israel. The spirit of the WW2 nazis never left, you find it e.g. in the socalled ”peace negotiations ” which the illegal / anti Israeli US administration is pushing like obsessed. The israeli leadership should not support the greatest lie of the millenium but start to call them by name : arabs with the intention and purpose to destroy Israel ! Israel will survive – but the enemies of Israel wont, because the God of Israel has said : ” I will curse those who curse Israel !”