If Israel wants peace, it must break away from Netanyahu’s ‘Clean Break’ doctrine

from The Hill

... It actually has an identifiable source. In 1996, Netanyahu, then Likud party leader, commissioned the policy document “A Clean Break, A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” whose lead drafters were neoconservatives Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, co-architects of the disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.  

In the document they asserted that Israel should “change the nature of its relations with the Palestinians, including upholding the ‘right of hot pursuit’ for self defense into all Palestinian areas.” They argued for abandoning the Oslo Accords, the agreed roadmap to a Palestinian state, in favor of aggressive, preemptive military force in Palestine and regionally, aimed at undermining the Palestinian Liberation Organization and preventing a free, independent Palestine. “Clean Break” also called for overthrowing the governments of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. 

But there have been leaders of another persuasion, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who took a different path and worked for a just, secure peace for Israel and Palestine and the region. Rabin led the negotiations that resulted in the Oslo Accords. Both men were Nobel Peace Prize laureates; both were assassinated by nationalist religious zealots. They were heroes who lived and died for peace....

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