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DECRYPTION – Frédéric Encel, a political scientist and author of “political horizon” (Seuil), discusses the scope of the speech delivered Sunday by Israeli Prime Minister …
Benjamin Netanyahu called Sunday night the Palestinians to resume talks in a speech to foreign policy, near Tel Aviv. He posed as a condition for a future Palestinian state demilitarization as well as recognition by the Palestinian State of Israel as the Jewish people.

Benjamin Netanyahu gave the term “State” Palestinian in his speech. Whether this will it change practice?
In the short term, this speech has allowed Netanyahu to save time on expectations of the Obama administration. He used the term wanted to hear the American president. In delivering the speech, the Israeli prime minister has avoided two pitfalls. The first is the increasing pressure from the United States after the speech, on June 4, by Barack Obama at the University of Cairo. Secondly, it allowed him to avoid a fall in his coalition. Benjamin Netanyahu had to negotiate hard, especially with the Likud (right conservative Israeli ed.). It has therefore secured a stay at home.

Can we talk about a real breakthrough in the peace process?
This is a relative in the process of negotiations. Benjamin Netanyahu was especially well-negotiated its position. Now he has taken a step forward, the ball is in the Palestinian camp. Israel will not move over. Netanyahu has provided leeway. It looks now that the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, is pronounced. But Netanyahu has ruled out a freeze on Israeli settlement and the return of Palestinian refugees forced to flee during the establishment of Israel in 1948. Unacceptable conditions for Palestinians.

In taking this position, Benjamin Netanyahu did he not put at risk vis-à-vis his own coalition?
While there may be divisions of the right within his coalition, Netanyahu could count on the moderates on Kadima to rebalance the debate. But in his speech, Netanyahu spoke of a demilitarized state. And this is not problematic within his coalition. The problem is that of settlements in the West Bank. But on this topic, Netanyahu did not say a word. This explains the mixed reactions on the part of Europeans who saw “important progress” but still “insufficient”.

Jerusalem – As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a major foreign policy address Sunday, the institution will be part of the message: “He will speak at Bar-Ilan, which was established in 1955 to secular learning with religious Zionism.

Counselors Netanyahu and the Israeli political analysts, the speech will be a response to the address of President Obama to Muslims this month at the University of Cairo. Netanyahu, they say, wants a Zionist “story” in a debate, which he said was tilted in Obama’s speech to the Arab version of events.

While Netanyahu’s comments is expected that all stakeholders, including Obama request a freeze on Jewish settlements and the President of the United States for the establishment of a Palestinian state, but the center of Netanyahu assertion that the Arabs must recognize Israel as a condition for peace process to succeed.

The point is not a condition for the start of peace negotiations with the Palestinians and other Arab countries, Netanyahu advisers have said. But just as Israel is asked to recognize the Palestinian identity of a neighboring country under the “two-state solution” advocated by Obama and the European leaders, Netanyahu believes that ending the Arab-Israeli conflict requires recognition on the other hand, they say.

“They have the Rubicon of a Jewish state,” said Netanyahu adviser involved in the preparation of the speech. “It will be necessary for an agreement, because you know that the conflict is over.”

The campaign for Netanyahu’s speech was dominated by the debate in the media and in political circles about how they will respond to the invitation to Obama a settlement freeze and whether it will be a Palestinian state. Netanyahu and his ruling coalition against both ideas, and they say that security problems remain the creation of a Palestinian state and a withdrawal from the West Bank, too risky. This argument can be strengthened by the election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose support of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas and the pursuit of nuclear technology is considered one of the main threats to Israel.

In announcing the plans to address, Netanyahu said he released “our principles for achieving peace and security”, while “trying to reach a maximum of understanding with the United States and our friends throughout the world.”

Coalition members and others have said, after meetings with Netanyahu they expect no major concessions to the United States and that any mention of a Palestinian state based on a long list of conditions. Netanyahu has said that a Palestinian entity would DeMilitarized not allowed its airspace, and the absence of other powers traditionally associated with a modern state.

The aim is not to solve all problems, but to “express his views on how Israel wants to make progress in the peace process,” Netanyahu said spokesman Mark Regev.

Obama to the Middle East, the former Senator George J. Mitchell was in the region last week of the promotion of the ultimate goal of an Arab-Israeli peace. Mitchell arrived in Damascus, the Syrian capital on Friday evening.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he will not agree with the revival of peace talks unless Israel accepts a settlement freeze. Palestinian officials said that recognition of Israel as a Jewish state could jeopardize the situation of Arab Israelis, representing approximately 20 percent of the population, and also to anticipate the fate of Palestinian refugees in other Arab countries. A resolution of the “right of return for refugees, the Palestinians say must be part of final negotiations.

But the speech by Mr Netanyahu will also try to get more directly to the Obama effort in Cairo to “reset” American relations with the Arab and Islamic world. Although the speech was credited with Israel, to reaffirm the alliance between the two countries and the strong language of the denial of the Holocaust, Israel said that analysts, seems for the interpretation of the main points from an Arab perspective.

This Israel-related to the creation of the Holocaust, for example, instead of recognizing the seniority of the Zionist desire for a Jewish homeland. It also has the problems of the Palestinians to date the creation of Israel in 1948, without mention of the Arab rejection of a proposed partition plan and other events that Israelis see as fundamental to the conflict.

Gerald Steinberg, chairman of the Bar-Ilan Department of Political Science, said Netanyahu will probably use the language of the settlement and the Palestinian State, which leave room for negotiation. But the broader message in May and dominate.

“Obama said that two things are disturbing, and I expect Netanyahu to rectify at this point,” said Steinberg. “The heart of the floor is the story – to accept the Jewish people the right to sovereign equality. If this matter has not changed, then it is pointless to continue.”