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D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor

The LPR Plan for Arab-Israel Peace

May 19, 2015 --

President Obama, moving to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, noted that our Cuba policy hasn't worked, after 50 years. LPR believes it is even more to the point that U.S. policy on the Arab-Israel conflict has not worked after 67 years. If it is time to change our policy on Cuba -- and also on Iran (after nearly four decades), LPR believes it is past time to change our policy on the Arab-Israel War. U.S. policy, these past 67 years, has been to apply pressure on the Jewish state, directly and via the United Nations, to be conciliatory to the Arab belligerents.

It should be noted that there is also a tone of...condescension towards Israel that is certainly absent from U.S.-Saudi Arabia dealings. Consider, please the outcry when Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that he would speak beofre Congress to oppose a "bad " nuclear deal with Iran. The front page of The Wall Street Journal, May 11, reported that the Saudi king will not attend an Arab summit called by President Obama "to build Aab support for a nuclear accord with Iran." LPR does not expect denunciations of the Saudi king from Democrats in Congress.

LPR proposes that the United Nations remove the "Question of Palestine" from the General Assembly agenda and also from matters raised before the Security Council. LPR encourages China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States -- the veto-holding powers on the U.N. Security Council -- to acknowledge that from 1948 until 1967, there were no demands for a two-state solution, that the international community accepted control of Arab areas of Palestine by Jordan.

LPR recommends that settlement of the Question of Palestine be settled in direct talks between Jordan and Israel, vis-a-vis the West Bank, and between Egypt and Israel as concerns the Gaza Strip.

LPR cautions the international community that peace will not come to the Middle East while the United Nations is seized of the "Question of Palestine."

The United Nations is a screen behind which the enemies of Israel plan their schemes leading to the eventual destruction of the Jewish state, to be replaced by the Islamic State of Palestine, the dream so devoutly wished by Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and anti-Semites around the world.