Speaker: Caspi visited Eugene to inform Jewish communities about Israel
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Deputy Consul General Omer Caspi speaks at Oregon Hillel about the future prospects of
peace between Israel and Palestine.
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he said he titled “Beyond Disen
gagement” because the disengage
ment, or pullout of West Bank and
Gaza, “is all over by now.”
The threats to peace extend be
yond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
Caspi said, and include Syria, Iran
and Saudi Arabia, from which a
missile would take only one to 15
minutes to reach Israel. Because
their militaries are larger and more
powerful in almost every way, he
said, peace treaties are the only way
to survive.
As for the Palestinians, Caspi said
there’s no way terror and peace can
coexist after the disengagement,
which was Israel’s contribution to
the peace process.
Caspi cited the 8,700 Israelis who
left their homes in Gaza and the
northern West Bank.
“We had to pay this price,” he
said, “and again, we hope it will
land both sides back at the table to
discuss the peace agreements.”
“Since there wasn’t any partner
on the other side ... we decided to
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leave now and put the ball in the
Palestinian court. ”
Caspi said Palestinian President
Abu Mazen needs to be a leader of
his newly acquired land.
“What we fail to see is leadership
on the other side. We fail to see a
partner on the other side,” he said.
Caspi visited Eugene for his first
time to bring news of Israel to Jewish
communities. His regional coverage
includes Northern California,
Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Montana and Alaska. He will speak
in Corvallis today.
In Jan. 2003, Caspi was appoint
ed to the Israeli Consulate after
working as a projects manager in Is
rael’s Global Operations Department,
first secretary at the Northeast Asia
Department at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and second secretary for
the Israeli Embassy’s Cultural and
Academic Affairs in Beijing, China.
On Tliesday, Caspi said the
greatest threat to peace is terrorism,
which has claimed more than
a thousand Israeli lives since
Sept. 2000, 70 percent of whom
were civilian.
The main support of this threat is
the Hamas movement, Caspi said.
Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Is
lamiyyah, meaning “Islamic Resis
tance Movement,” is the Palestinian
Islamist paramilitary organization
trying to spread Islamic theocracy,
he said.
Caspi laid out what he called
good, bad and ugly scenarios for the
future. The good: Palestinian authori
ties rule. The bad: Anarchy by the
terrorists, and the ugly: Hamas rules.
“Soon enough, both sides, us and
them, will meet to talk about the
peace scenario,” Caspi said.
Former University journalism
school Dean Arnold Ismach said af
ter the event that he enjoyed the
positive message.
“There are opinions all over the
land as to what strategies to take,”
Ismach said, “but he was very
positive and I hope he was right.”
Contact the campus and federal
politics reporter at
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