Thanks a lot Big Brain!
EU Foreign Policy Advisor, Javier Solano, suggests why he should not be paid big bucks. Ha’aretz:
The Foreign Ministry on Sunday dismissed a call by the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, for the United Nations to set a deadline for the establishment of a Palestinian state as “dangerous.”
(…)Solana said on Saturday that, “After a fixed deadline, a UN Security Council resolution should proclaim the adoption of the two-state solution.” He added that this should include border parameters, refugees, control over the city of Jerusalem and security arrangements.
“It would accept the Palestinian state as a full member of the UN, and set a calendar for implementation. It would mandate the resolution of other remaining territorial disputes and legitimize the end of claims,” Solana went on.
Advocating a return to Israel’s borders before the 1967 Six-Day War with Egypt, Syria and Jordan in which it took the West Bank and other territories, Solana said mediators should set a timetable for a peace agreement. “If the parties are not able to stick to it [the timetable], then a solution backed by the international community should be put on the table,” he said.
What a rather novel idea that Solano believes that both the Palestinians and the Israelis would just meekly accept any solution forced on them by outsiders. I suppose the flaw in his thinking, besides the obvious, is that he considers the Israelis as some kind of second-rate Euroweinies, who would tremble at the very notion of the UN trying to deploy their forces into Israel and meekly accept a foreign force in their land to enforce a such a division.
While the Palestinian Authority doesn’t have much in the way of a conventional army it has shown that it does know a thing or two about running an insurgency campaign so facing either the PA security forces or IDF (which is a first world military force and a very well equipped one I might add), isn’t going to amount to a good time for any UN/international force trying to impose a ‘just’ solution to either parties.
