My  mother recieved this email today from John Delancey.   
Netanyahu Adds Settlement Blocs to Peace Conditions
by Gil  Ronen 
In a speech before the Knesset’s  plenum in its special Herzl Day session, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu laid  down five conditions for a peace treaty with the Palestinian Authority Arabs.  These are:
- The Palestinians must recognize Israel as the Jewish nation’s state.
- The treaty must be an end to the conflict.
- The Arab refugee problem must be solved outside of Israel’s borders.
- A Palestinian state will have to be demilitarized and a peace treaty must safeguard Israel’s security.
- The settlement blocs will remain within the state of Israel and Jerusalem will remain its united capital.
Netanyahu’s speech can be seen  as an accurate indication of what he intends to say when he addresses the U.S.  Congress next Tuesday. It is unlikely that he will go back on any of the  principles he laid down, given the venue: a Herzl Day address before the Knesset  plenum. Fearing that the prime minister intended to announce concessions in  Washington, MKs within Likud had demanded that Netanyahu address Israelis before  he goes to the U.S..
 
Based on Monday's speech, the  prime minister does not appear to be planning any retreat from previous  positions, and may even have toughened his stance somewhat, although this is  arguable.
 
By and large, the speech does  not depart from the one he delivered at Bar Ilan University in June 2009. In  that speech as in the latest one, Netanyahu said that a PA state would be  demilitarized, and that Israel would require security arrangements in a peace  treaty. He also said that Jerusalem would remain united as Israel’s capital and  that Arab refugees would be resettled outside Israel.   
 
The condition added by Netanyahu  in this speech is Israel’s retention of the large settlement blocs. In the Bar  Ilan speech, Netanyahu said that the territorial issues would be determined in  negotiations and that until then, Israel would not be building new settlements  or expropriating land in Judea and Samaria.
 
In Monday’s speech he was less  defensive and more confident on this issue, raising the ante and announcing that  Israel would insist on keeping the large settlement blocs in its  possession.
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My take on this is simple.  Read Ezekiel 38.  If they can implement this peace plan, then we are looking at the setup for Ezekiel.  The challenge is that Palestine has never wanted to recognize Israel.  They also want the Old city of Jerusalem as their capital.  Israel does not want Palestinians anywhere they can attack.  So we'll have to wait and see.  Things are starting to look up.  It may not be May 21 but our redemption is drawing neigh. 
 
