Politico to go: Bill Clinton should know better!

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In an interview with Foreign Policy Magazine, Bill Clinton said the reluctance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the terms reached at Camp David in 2000, is a main reason for a lack of peace today.
“The two great tragedies in modern Middle Eastern politics, which make you wonder if G-d wants Middle East peace or not, were [former Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin’s assassination and [former Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon’s stroke.”
Bill Clinton should know that it was Yasser Arafat walking out of that meeting that caused the prospect of peace to collapse. In addition to his misguided blaming of Netanyahu, the former president is equally wrong about Sharon. The withdrawal from Gaza occurred five years after Clinton left the White House. If Sharon had not suffered a stroke, he would have immediately deployed the full force of the IDF to retaliate for the rockets shooting from Gaza.
Rabin was a pragmatic man who negotiated with a terrorist simply to prevent further bloodshed of innocent Israelis, but he wasn’t willing to negotiate away Israel’s security or its Jewish identity. Contrary to myths, Rabin was not the type to “sacrifice everything for the sake of peace.” Despite what Bill Clinton says, Yitzchak Rabin was the last Israeli PM who did not support the creation of a Palestinian state. Nine days before he died, Rabin laid out his vision for the future of Israel and the disputed territories, a speech before Knesset. Below are some highlights:
No Palestinian State: “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.”

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