“I like the idea very much,” he said, and expressed regret that it didn’t happen “10, 20 or 65 years ago”– during remarks on Friday at the Saban Forum in Washington, in which he gave Trump the green light from the Israeli ‘opposition.’
Aye, Barak thinks it’s just a matter of explaining it to “the Arabs”:
“[E]specially if the Arabs will be let known in advance and [it is] explained to them that it doesn’t close the door on any future American effort.”
One must conclude that if the Arabs don’t get it, it is simply because they are thick and intransigent – and that will prove once again that there is “no one to talk to” (as Barak said after Camp David), which will justify further consigning Palestinians to their Bantustans, in service to Israel’s famous ‘security concerns’.