Where would you like to start?
"asking for more...." That is asking for something different and indeed for something less. The mere fact that it is non violent and only symboloic has the Israeli govt. and its mouthpieces in a frenzy over how to make it look bad, much like they did when the PA used americas own statements as the precise wording for a previous motion.
"It is imperative to world peace...." That is just bollox.
"It is also important that...." Once again pure bollox, the proposals, even including from the US statement on the subject don't say that.
Classic donkey oaty from Dershowitz.
"aggression .....aggression..... unjustified" aggression under any definition applies to all sides in the conflicts and all sides have both justified and unjustified elements.
"which was essentially the peace treaty ...." errrr...no, simple as that.
"That's how the laws of war are supposed to work...." are they? He hasn't done very well on the laws of war throughout his piece has he .
"But the negotiations must not begin where previous offers...."not only does that not make sensebut it also appears to be in direct contradiction of his usual "no pre-conditions" line.
"The Arab rejection of the UN partition plan"...it being clearly understood
they like that document as long as they leave the words it contains out of it don't they
"A balance must be struck ....." indeed, but he doesn't seem to favour balance at all and supports more barriers to peace not less.
"I was at the United Nations ....." I could swear that he contradicts himself earlier in the piece
"Abbas message, in sum, left little or no room for further compromise...." It left plenty of room, poor Alan has the problem of believing what he writes as true and not seeing that all sides have to compromise.
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered ..." he insisted on a precondition as he made the statement plus was totally undermined by his own deputy.
Would you like to go through in more detail?
As an extra bit of fun can you see the glaring error in Skybirds little piece after the article?