"Palestinians are tired of Israel's political swindling"

"...Benjamin Netanyahu is neither Mubarak nor Ben Ali. He is more like Gadhafi and Assad: he aspires to a 'national steadfastness' against international pressures and the Palestinian threat to establish a state. "We will stand steadfast against those who will try to dictate terms to us, who will leave us without security and without peace,"... Of the pressures from the White House, Netanyahu has nothing to worry about. These have not existed for some time. ... But even the "foreign elements," whether they are the U.S. or the Palestinians, Netanyahu will try to maneuver using old partners in the Middle East. After all, what do the Americans want? To bring down the last island of democracy in the Middle East, which is sinking in the sea of popular revolutions that are still leading nowhere? Do they want a state of Hamas also in the West Bank and Jerusalem, after they already set up a Shi'ite state in Iraq and a non-state in Afghanistan? Would it not be best for the U.S. to first know how the end game will turn out in Libya, Yemen or Syria, before it applies pressure against the Jewish state and tries to dictate terms to it? Oh, what wonderful excuses the revolutions in the Arab states are providing to the Israeli leader, who is already feeling the waves of the political tsunami. With his talent, he will maneuver the windsurfer onto a dangerous beach. He will talk the Americans to death and add the Palestinians to the axis of evil...... Now he is proposing "a little withdrawal," without dismantling any settlements, without removing outposts, without transferring populations, without authorities of state, in order to block the threat of a Palestinian state declaration.... To the Palestinians and the Americans he will present it as a unprecedented concession, and to the Israelis he will say it is only the implementation of an agreement that has already been signed and is not a precedent - no new concession.

He is counting on an automatic Palestinian reaction which demands all or nothing. After all, they are tired of crumbs of proposals, pointless negotiations, of Israel's political swindling. They are pushing for a state, and in this rush, Netanyahu is hoping they may fall into a new trap, reject the proposal for a partial withdrawal and play into Israel's hands. But what if they decide to accept the partial withdrawal but continue, at the same time, with efforts to establish their state?.... It will show that like Mubarak or Assad, Netanyahu too is vulnerable to pressure, and he too finally understands that the formula of "peace for peace" is dead..."