As everyone knows, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu stunned the world on June 14, 2009, and reversed his position on the peace process, calling for a 2 state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. This after his 1999 Likud Party platform said
The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river.
Netanyahu called on Palestinians to begin negotiations immediately, without pre-conditions. Bibi laid out his plan with his demands, which include a demilitarized Palestine, something which Arafat and the Palestinians did not claim to be the reasons for walking away from the 2000 Camp David summit. not only that, but the idea has consensus support amongst many an experienced statesmen. Bibi gave up long held principles of himself and his party to lay the groundwork for a peace deal.
But Palestinian leadership, such as the Palestinian Authority and Hamas did not accept the olive branch given to them, even though Netanyahu's coalition has now coalesced behind the plan, including right-wing Avigdor Lieberman. When Netanyahu actually opened the door to negotiations, the Palestinian negotiator claimed he "closed the door to permanent status negotiations." Hamas even went as far to call the speech for peace "racist," which is nothing but child-speak and double talk.
It is time for the Palestinians to accept that Israel has a right to its own immigration policy, and that a right of return for Palestinian refugees and their millions of descendants in nothing but a Trojan Horse for the destruction of Israel. It is time for the Palestinians to acknowledge that no country would want them on their borders armed, as even Arafat accepted that term in 2000, but walked away because Israel wouldn't let the Trojan Horse in, even when Jerusalem was gonna be divided. It is time for the Palestinians to at least come to the table, as Israel is the victor in this conflict, which means their terms come first, and negotiations come second. The Palestinians are the ones who tried to destroy Israel even before it was Israel, with the pogroms unleashed upon Jews who lived peacefully by them and built up the land which gave Arabs jobs in the 1920s, when who Edward Said called the "representation of the Palestinian consensus," Al-Husseini, who would later collaborate with unsavory people on the losing and wrong side of the war, unleashed hatred and violence, even before Jews began their own groups, the tactics of which were actually rejected by the leading Zionist government and activists around the world. It is the Palestinians who sought help from the USSR during the Cold War, again on the wrong and losing side of history. It was you guys who tried to annihilate the Jewish State, and still continue to try, from rejecting the 1938 Peel Commission, the 1948 Partition, and 2000 Camp David. You even tried to overthrow the Jordanian government in Black September. When a hardliner even accepts your demands of a Palestinian state, contrary to his party's platform in the past, along with his coalition, and now his own people, are strongly behind the plan for peace, it is time to come to the table. Given that this may be the strongest political support for a two state solution from the Israeli people, given the consensus building Bibi has now done, Palestine has no choice but to AT LEAST come to the table. You can negotiate over Jerusalem, your security forces, settlements, and you should. No one offers everything you want at the get-go. the Netanyahu government is not folding tomorrow, and now, a plurality of Kadima voters think Livni should join a possibly unity government. Face it, Israel will not allow you to destroy it thru a possible chance of a Hamas Army and an Islamic Republic of Hamastan, supported by the freely elected Ahmadinejad, and the Trojan Horse of right of return for millions of refugees descendants, the cause of their plight attributed by even Abbas at a time to Arab leaders. They are the victorious, you are are not. The ball is now in your court, Palestinians. Play the game, and do not forfeit, or you may be never invited to play again. At least for a long time.