No Palestinian Compromise
James Rubin, who was Assistant Secretary of State during the Clinton Administation and is married to CNN's Christiane Amanpour, was a guest on CNN's program hosted by Aaron Brown last night. Rubin expressed his concern that Sharon's offers of territorial compromise would fall short of Barak's offers at Taba, and stated that the Palestinians could not be expected to accept less than what they have already rejected.
According to Rubin's logic, Israel will have to continually increase its offers to meet Palestinian demands, until it eventually agrees to give up Judea, Samaria, Gaza, Jerusalem and allows millions of refugees to destroy Israel.
Instead, the Palestinians should and must pay a price for their refusal to accept Barak's egregiously excessive concessions. Just as the 1947 partition plan was no longer on the table following the 1948 war, the Clinton Plan must not be the basis for negotiation following the war waged by Arafat in 2000.
posted on 6/05/2003
