There are stresses associated with every possible solution proposed.

With the one-state solution on the table, most likely Phil would start running headlines stating "Why we're heading towards a two-state solutions".

"Equal due process under the law".

And, we have to live up to it.

flounder??? Why not, says the herring.

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"With the one-state solution on the table, most likely Phil would start running headlines stating "Why we're heading towards a two-state solutions"."

very, very unlikely. Maybe your Phil, but not the Phil we read.

Psychic Murder is when you push someone away and pull him (or her) to you at the same time, always with great emotion over something emotional to both parties. It debilitates the spirit. It poisons any relationship. It destroys you physically over time because you can't identify the culprit activity accurately.

All these peace proposals I've heard from Israel since the middle 90s are psychic murder. It's always Israel who is setting the terms. It gets tiring to listen to this great ME democracy, this paragon of freedom and fairness, this great hard-done-by for 60 years full of IQs greater than any other living group on the planet, these Chosen Ones, fail to achieve and perform the basic diplomacy and negotiation skills of even a nascent nation state.

If you could alter the template of your TypePad (?) so the

Posted by: MRW. | August 18, 2008 at 01:34 PM

line was bold, it would help tremendously with readability.

Israel has been relentlessly pursuing this end for the last 16 years. What Phil is illustrating here is that they are doing so this month as well.

Therefore, Israel will be responsible for the West Bank Arab population. They have to decide how to deal with them. Putting them in cages is the current policy, but most rational observers believe that after a few decades of that treatment, world opinion will probably force Israel to free its prisoners. About 40% of the Israeli public (and more importantly, likely a majority of the officers in intelligence and the IDF, support the transfer option. Like Benny Morris believes, they should do now what they failed to do in 1948. This option would not have support outside of Israel, probably even the US would object.

See, there is really no other option. It is one state or two states. If the Palestinians had any political sense they would give up on the two state solution for the simple reason they have lost that one. Sharon's facts on the ground are the reality. The Palestinians should adopt a political platform that the ANC found effective in S Africa.

Its taken another 15 years for the Israeli leadership to acknowledge that it is the best of imperfect solutions.

The options on the table include:

1. One state solution comprised of strong Jewish majority, comprising a Zionist state, after forcefully removing most Palestinians entirely from the land.

2. One sharia state comprised of strong Islamic majority, after forcefully removing most Jews entirely from the land.

3. One primarily civil state comprised of a majority formed from coalition of civilist parties. (Not from Likud, not from Hamas, not from Israeli religious parties, not from Palestinian militant parties)

4. Two states

3 is possible, but a long way away, and not formed by condemnation but by reaching out to the other.