I wish Carter would just hang it up... Too bad Kennedy is the one with the brain tumor...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131906Knesset Speaker to Carter: No Israeli Consensus on Two-States
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) Though PM Netanyahu agreed to a demilitarized PA state under specific conditions in his policy speech this week, Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin told former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Monday that the issue is far from agreed upon by the Israeli public.
“The heart of the dispute in our region is not just one of local territorial disputes,” Rivlin told the self-proclaimed mediator, “but an all-over Arab-Jewish dispute.” He explained just last week, during a solidarity visit to the Jewish city of Ariel in Samaria, that “only after we solve the Arab-Jewish conflict and can be confident that the Arab countries recognize Israel and our right to live here in security, can we address the conflict between ourselves and the Palestinians, with whom we are destined to live together.”
“There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula,” Rivlin said to Carter during the latter’s visit to the Knesset. “We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.”
The two met for a half-hour, and discussed the recent speeches by U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Rivlin: We Want Long-Term Peace, not "Peace Now"“We have returned to our homeland over the past 200 years in order to stay here,” Rivlin said. “When we first established this state, 61 years ago, we could never imagine that we would reach today’s population figures of seven million. We don’t want to rule over another nation, but we must protect ourselves. We want real peace, not fake, short-term ‘Peace Now,’ which is liable to be nothing more than an illusion.”
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