"Bibi" Netanyahu Returns to Power in Israel; Which Makes the Gerry Maxey 2008 Peace Plan VERY VIABLE

On December 31, 2008,  this Blogger had a vision for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace, when he published the following:  

“ New Year, 2009, and Israelis and Palestinians are still killing each other, as has happened every year since Jehovah knows when. This conflict is something out of Gabriel Garcia Marquez; so it will take a solution out of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.…..the Palestinian Arab-Israeli Conflict, must be  based on a Two State solution,  using methods out of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.   

Step One-The Palestinians pull a Chief Joseph and stop fighting, period.   

” From where the sun stands, I will fight no more.”   

 

Step Two-The Palestinians execute some of their own diehards as proof of life examples to the Israelis.  

 

Step Three-The Palestinians disarm, and give up all their claims to a State of their own.   

 

Step Four-The Palestinians ask for Israeli citizenship, and the right to vote in Israeli elections.   

 

Step Five-The Palestinians start peacefully marching for the Israeli vote and start singing, “WE SHALL OVERCOME.”  

 

Step Six-The Palestinians calmly wait for the Israelis to open discussions on a two state solution; the alternative not being war but the REAL threat of Palestinians becoming Israeli citizens.  

 

The future of Israel is quite stark, if it does not accept a two state solution; the Palestinians will force a one state solution, and overwhelm the Jewish state by demographics…….Gerry Maxey in THE DAILY GRAND and SUNDRY, 12-31-2008.”  

 

In 2023, The 2008 Maxey Mid-East Plan looks better and better, for peace in the region, for peace in the world. 

 

For in 2022, the Israeli voter returned Benjamin Netanyahu to power, at the head of a coalition of fanatics. He has resumed command; with the most right wing government in Israeli history. A government, which in ideology,  is analogous to the theocrats in Iran, and the royalists in Saudi Arabia. It MUST be the water in the Middle East. 

 

“The coalition, made up of Jewish ultranationalist and religious parties, has already prompted an unprecedented uproar from Israeli society, including the country’s defense establishment, businesses, LGBTQ community, secular Jews and others. The new government has promised to curb the power of the country’s independent judiciary and expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank that will deepen the conflict with the Palestinians. 

After over a year in opposition, Netanyahu secured a comeback in the latest election – the nation’s fifth in less than four years – to extend his record-setting tenure as prime minister. 

Netanyahu’s new government has pledged to prioritize settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, extend massive subsidies to his ultra-Orthodox allies and push for sweeping reform of the judicial system that could endanger the country’s democratic institutions. 

…Netanyahu and his ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox allies secured a parliamentary majority in November’s election. 

….Netanyahu heads a government comprised of a hard-line religious ultranationalist party dominated by West Bank settlers, two ultra-Orthodox parties and his nationalist Likud party. 

His allies are pushing for dramatic changes that could alienate large swaths of the Israeli public, raise the risk of conflict with the Palestinians, and put Israel on a collision course with some of its closest supporters, including the United States and the Jewish American community. 

Netanyahu’s government published its platform, which stated that “the Jewish people have exclusive and indisputable rights” over the entirety of Israel and the Palestinian territories and will advance settlement construction in the occupied West Bank. That includes legalizing dozens of wildcat outposts and a commitment to annex the entire territory, a step that would draw heavy international opposition by destroying any remaining hopes for Palestinian statehood and add fuel to calls that Israel is an apartheid state if millions of Palestinians are not granted citizenship. 

….The new government has also raised concerns about impingement of minority and LGBTQ rights. 

Outside parliament, several thousand demonstrators waved the Israeli and Pride flags and chanted “we don’t want fascists in the Knesset.” Another protest was expected in Tel Aviv later in the day. 

Earlier this week, two members of the Religious Zionism party said they would advance an amendment to the country’s anti-discrimination law that would allow businesses and doctors to discriminate against the LGBTQ community on the basis of religious faith. 

Those remarks, along with the ruling coalition’s broadly anti-LGBTQ stance, have raised fears among the LGBTQ community that the new Netanyahu administration would roll back their limited rights. Netanyahu has tried to allay those concerns by pledging no harm to LGBTQ rights….PBS.” 

 On July 24, 2014, this Blogger published::A Contrarian Revisionist Theory of Everything-"Bibi" Netanyahu.  

http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-contrarian-revisionist-theory-of_24.html  

  

The following is excerpted from that Blog:  

  

“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin  "Bibi" Netanyahu is the most gifted, the most articulate  politician currently on the American political scene. He is sparkling and dazzling in his grasp and command of the American vernacular and American idiom. ….he is truly the greatest American communicator extant….. his political skill set is perfect for America  yet lacking for Israel, and certainly deficient for the Middle East. Bibi understands Americans, but does not understand Arabs, specifically Palestinians. It is arguably better for an Israeli Prime Minister to understand Arabs than Americans.  

  

….Israel’s Founding Father Ben-Gurion knew Arabs; he did not disdain them as inconsequential, as Bibi does…..  

  

Israel is a state that has no room for error. It not only needs a nuclear bomb, a fabulous Army and an Iron Dome (a shield of anti-missiles missiles), it needs Ben-Gurion smarts.   

  

To survive under the pressure of no errors, Israel needs allies, and not just America. Palestinians may never be allies of Israel, but it is well within David Ben-Gurion’s dream that Palestinians can live a benign, dignified, honorable co-existence with a non-expansive Israel.  

  

Peace need not be a group hug; Peace is not killing each other.  

  

…Once in Cairo, this Blogger had a drink with a Christian Palestinian on the banks of the Nile. He thought the life span of Israel would be 88 years, for the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem lasted 88 years, and he compared Israel to that Crusader state.  

He thought it would take 88 years for the brilliant leadership of the founding fathers of Israel to entropy into the leadership of Guy of Lusignan, the obtuse Crusader King who lost all that the Crusaders had built in the Middle East in an ill advised battle with Saladin, the Battle of Hattin.  

The Palestinian Christian noted that the Crusader states could have survived; the Shiites of Egypt had offered them a pact but the Crusaders saw all Arabs as the same, and refused an alliance with the Shiites, which lead to their doom…..…THE MAXEY CHRONICLES” 

 

On May 21, 2021, this Blogger published the following: 

 

“This Blogger happened to be in Cairo during the first Gulf War; he was sitting in the Sheraton watching the television with a bunch of Kuwaiti exiles when some Palestinians asked to join the group. As a courtesy to this Blogger, the entire future conversation was in English; which this Blogger thought was very thoughtful.  

 

The common dream of the Palestinians was the establishment of a secular state on the land of Israel, in which Jew, Christian, Druze and Muslim could live as brothers. Alas, the Palestinian Dream meant and means that Israelis, as a Jewish state, as a Jewish homeland, would be extirpated.  

 

That idea will not go over well in Israel, since Israeli Jews do not trust the benevolence of History, from the Babylonian  Captivity, to Romans destroying the temple, to Masada, to the Catholic majesties kicking them out of Spain, to Russians slaughtering them, to Nazis making a close run to annihilating all of  them.  

 

The Palestinians made a point of returning again and again to the righteousness of their cause; they continually referred to the Nakba, the catastrophe; the Nakba, the  mass exodus of Palestinians from the new state of Israel in 1948.  

 

The Palestinians desired to bet the righteousness of their NAKBA pain against the righteousness of the pain of the Holocaust.  

 

The Palestinian exercise in righteousness is useless.  

 

It has no merit. The reason that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is so intractable is simple; BOTH SIDES ARE RIGHT. It is that paradoxical truth which has bedeviled the peacemakers of the world. The Israelis have a right to maintain the survival of the Jewish people, under their own control; the Palestinians have a right to say: "Don't tread on me." 

 

When the righteousness of the conflict is so evenly divided, it comes down to tactics.  

 

For the sake of their people, Palestinians must reach the obvious conclusion, that they cannot defeat the Israelis militarily, by war or intifada, in the lifetime of any living Palestinian.  

 

The Palestinians must accept who the Israelis really are in the arc of History; the Israelis are Macedonians, Romans during the Punic Wars, Normans, and Conquistadors.  

 

For their people to survive, in dignity, Palestinians must retire all their wartime consiglieres and find, in their population, a Mahatma Gandhi.  

 

It is one of the great sins of 20^th Century History that an Israeli/Palestinian accord could not be forged when other great Israeli lions were alive: Moshe Dayan, David  Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Rabin, and Abba Eban. Alas, the great Arab lion of that age was Gamal Abdel Nasser; who was delusional. He threatened Israel with annihilation; then,rather than plan for an armed Israeli reaction to his threats, a preemptive strike, he spent hours discussing the future of Jews in a post Israel, Palestinian state. With lions like Dayan, one does not plan post victory parties before winning the victory.  

   

Alas, the current Prime Minister of Israel is the less than great Bibi Netanyahu, brother of the late great Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed during the 1976 Entebbe Raid, while leading the elite commando unit, Sayeret Matkal. Yonatan was the only Israeli soldier killed while rescuing 102 out of 106 Israeli hostages held by Palestinian terrorists in Uganda.  

   

Bibi Netanyahu is a very shrewd politician, who wants a powerful Israel, even at the cost of a SAFE Israel. Historically he is direct descendant of Guy of Lusignan, the last King of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem; Guy wanted a powerful Crusader Kingdom  at the cost of a safe Crusader Kingdom. Guy wound up with no Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.  

   

It is now quite obvious that Bibi of Lusignan wants to dismantle the concept of a two state solution,  Israel living side by side with a West Bank Palestinian state, hopefully in peace. Bibi wants to replace the two-state solution with a one state solution, a greater Israel from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea  to the banks of the Jordan River, the mythic  Eretz Israel(Greater Israel).  

   

Bibi will be capable of imposing his vision on the world by force of Israeli arms. Sobeit.    

  

Palestinians should not waste their lives in resisting the declaration of the mythic Eretz Israel; instead Palestinians should renounce a state of their own, renounce the two state solution, renounce violence, and begin the epic voyage of asking for Israeli citizenship, with voting rights. Palestinians renouncing a two state solution, for citizenship in a one state, will insure a two state solution.  

  

The first step in seeking Israeli citizenship for all West Bank Arabs, Palestinians, is to dissolve the quasi-state, the Palestinian Authority.  

  

Faced with Palestinian Arabs seeking full Israeli citizenship, Israel will just LEAVE the West Bank. (The Gandhi input  to the Peace Solution).   

  

"Mahatma Gandhi had once demanded, in a meeting with the British appointed Governor of India, the unconditional withdrawal of Britain’s colonial occupation. A high ranking British official who was present at the meeting retorted: “Do you expect Her Majesty’s Government just to get up and leave India.” “Yes, I do”, Gandhi replied. “One day you will just leave.”And not too many years later, that is exactly what happened.".  

  

Prime Minister  Bibi Netanyahu has caught the pathology of Guy de Lusignan.  

  

Israel has nuclear weapons, atomic bombs. It may have 6 bombs, or sixty bombs or 600 bombs. Obviously, Bibi thinks that possessing such a mighty nuclear arsenal precludes Israel from defeat.  

  

WHAT SHOULD BE THE SMART PALESTINIAN REACTION?-  

  

First of all, Palestinians must, MUST, fore-swear any fourth intifada; ...   

 

The Palestinian people, asking for Israeli citizenship is a WIN-WIN for them. If they get Israeli citizenship, by demographics alone, they will take over the Israeli State. If they do not get citizenship, but continue a massive civic campaign for Israeli citizenship, Bibi will have one of those political epiphanies, and give them their own state.  

  

If Bibi Netanyahu wants a Greater Israel, the Palestinians of the West Bank should give him that, and let History roll the dice…..THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.” 

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