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Luxembourg as honest
broker between Israel and the Palestinians?
The Jerusalem Post reports: "Prime Minister
Bettel has invited me to Luxembourg, and he said the Palestinians might also
come there," Netanyahu said. "Therefore, it's either Moscow or
Luxembourg," he asserted in reference to a Russian-offered
meeting between
himself and Abbas that has yet to come to fruition.
"We'll see, either one - or any other
place," he added, reiterating that Israel is "always ready for direct
negotiations without preconditions."
We probably have to chill
out. Moscow might offer more. Unless a small unbiased partner (is Asselborn?)
could try to bring both ends together.
We tried in the past.
Actually in the early 70ies, King Hussein of Jordan came to Luxembourg in an
attempt to try something. And on another occasion the Israeli Minister of
Foreign Affairs Abba Eban came too. Arafat’s PLO was still in active terror
mode. So as a young Platoon leader in the Luxembourg Armed Forces I was
assigned among many others to the security task force.
As such a mission was not
the standard, soldiers had to be trained with some legal considerations when
engaging a suspected terrorist. Which at the time was: “Shout Stop! If the
suspect doesn’t obey shout again: Stop, or I open fire! If the suspect doesn’t
stop his aggression, fire one shot in the air. If he still doesn’t stop, open
fire at him!”
There was some silence.
Then one of the men asked the perfect legal question: “Does it matter in which
sequence we follow all those four steps?”
