By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent: ANALYSIS / Shalit has become the key to Mideast peace
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Title:Can they sell Jones/Blair Plan
Name:Reid
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The Plan has to be sold to Israelis and the Jewish World.

Weaknesses: Israel should not have to apologize for its very creation. The 1948 refugee crisis was (at most) only partially Israel`s making. The Arab League expelled as many Jews as Pals. The WB, EJ and Gaza were ethnically cleansed of Jews through massacre and Pal refugees (80% within the Palestine mandate). Pal refugees denied citizenship and put in refugee camps by Arabs.

2. No recognition of Israel as a Jewish State or even as a `Homeland of the Jews`.

3. Misunderstanding of meaning of Jerusalem as a religious core value of most streams of Judaism. Loss of the Mount of Olives, Tower of David, City of David, Rachel`s Tomb, (Kotel?) etc to anti-Israel `International` control is insult to Judaism.

4. Loss of sovereignty over Gaza/WB corridor with no reciprocity.

5. `Judenrein` Palestine. Essentially racist and exclusionist.

6 Phony `normalization`.

7. No recognition of Mitzrayim.