http://jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/israel-facing-grim-threat-assessment-for-2009/ Delivering a grim threat assessment, the Israeli National Security Council said that Israel in 2009 may well find itself alone facing Iran on the threshold of nuclear power, fighting rocket attacks on two fronts and without a Palestinian partner for a two-state solution. en-us lsusser@jta.org Copyright 2008 2008-11-24T;16:40:01-05:00 mikh_zak1974@yahoo.com What the NSC should have said is that for the last 6 years Israel hasn’t moved fast enough in negotiations with Abbas (during both the Sharon and Olmert administrations), thereby discrediting Abbas in the eyes of his people. As elections become more and more rare due to continious election date postponements in the West Bank and Gaza the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority is greatly diminished to the point that one day the NSC will come to the conclusion that either Israel must recognize and negotiate with Hamas as the representative of the Palestinians, or abandon the two state solution and endorse the notion of a binational Israeli state where at some future point Jewish citizens will be a minority in Israel. What the NSC should have said is that for the last 6 years Israel hasn’t moved fast enough in negotiations with Abbas (during both the Sharon and Olmert administrations), thereby discrediting Abbas in the eyes of his people. As elections become more and more rare due to continious election date postponements in the West Bank and Gaza the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority is greatly diminished to the point that one day the NSC will come to the conclusion that either Israel must recognize and negotiate with Hamas as the representative of the Palestinians, or abandon the two state solution and endorse the notion of a binational Israeli state where at some future point Jewish citizens will be a minority in Israel.

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