Disarm Israel  A Utopia or a Vision for Peace  Change Text Size
a- | A+           [Contribution to the Reimagining Society
Project hosted by ZCommunications]   Whenever the possibility of
establishing an independent Palestinian state is mentioned by
Israeli politicians, they take for granted that their
interlocutors understand that the future state would have to be
demilitarized and disarmed, if an Israeli consent for its
existence is to be gained. Recently, this precondition was
mentioned by the current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in response to President Barrack Obama’s two states
vision, presented to the world at large in his Cairo Speech this
June. Netanyahu made this precondition first and foremost for
domestic consumption: whoever has referred in the past to the
creation of an independent state alongside Israel, and whoever
does so today in Israel envisages a fully armed Israel next to a
totally disarmed Palestine. But there was another reason why
Netanyahu stressed the demilitarization of