Weekly Commentary: Barefaced lie from Kerry about Saudi Initiative.

Weekly Commentary: Barefaced lie from Kerry about Saudi Initiative.HT: Imra.By Dr. Aaron Lerner. Date: 9 January 2014

Here is a barefaced lie from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry:

"One of the reasons I'm going to Saudi Arabia is that Saudi Arabia's initiative holds out the prospect that if the parties could arrive at a peaceful resolution, you could instantaneously have peace between the 22 Arab nations and 35 Muslim nations, all of whom have said they will recognize Israel if peace is achieved." Secretary of State John Kerry, Jerusalem, January 5, 2014

Now take a look at the Saudi initiative he is referring to:

"The Arab Peace Initiative, 2002

...2. Further calls upon Israel to affirm:

I- Full Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied since 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights, to the June 4, 1967 lines as well as the remaining occupied Lebanese territories in the south of Lebanon."

That's right. Cutting a deal with the Palestinians doesn't gain Israel "instant peace" unless Israel also withdraws from every square centimeter of the Golan Heights and what the Arab Peace Initiative terms "the remaining occupied Lebanese territories in the south of Lebanon".

Oops.

Which is worse?

Option #1: That Mr. Kerry and his huge team of experts are so recklessly shallow in their familiarity with the simplest of details of major documents relating to the "peace process" that they honestly did not notice that the Arab Peace Initiative requires full Israeli withdrawals not associated with the Palestinians.

Option #2: The Americans know and are following the time honored tradition that “the ends justify the means”.

And since we are already talking about the Arab Initiative, Mr. Kerry is reported to be lobbying for the Initiative to be amended to recognize Israel as a Jewish State with the caveat that this recognition does not infringe on the equal rights of the Israeli Arabs.

That caveat is anything but innocuous.

it should be kept in mind that the position of the Israeli Arabs is that the Law of Return, which opens Israel to immigration of Jews around the world, infringes on their rights as it does not apply, by its very nature, equally to Arabs and Jews.

Back in 2007 this position gained documented expression in a proposal for a constitution that limited immigration to humanitarian cases.

The proposal was also designed to prevent most Jews now living in Israel who have non-citizen status from becoming citizens. Read the full story here.