I awoke yesterday to a report that Israel’s hard line prime minister, Netanyahu has stated that he is open to the idea of a separate Palestinian state.  My first reaction was, “did hell freeze over?”

After I did some research I found that he had said he would accept a Palestinian state but wioth a few conditions.  These were:

1–No military

2-Must accept Israel’s right to exist

3–An undivided Jerusalem as capital of Israel

4–Israel’s right to build settlements in Occupied territory

Those were the main points of his speech, but after reading I as where is anything new?  These are the same conditions that have been thrown around for decades.  So any reporting on this as somehow a new path to a Middle East peace is just stretching things a bit far.

Now where is the incentive for Palestinians to come to the table with Netanyahu?  There is nothing new.  Israel will have all the benefits and the Pals will be left out in t he cold, yet again.

Basically, it is just a ploy to keep the US off their collective butts….for now….this is NOT a realistic offer.