With almost GrouchoMarxlike indignation, Commentary's blog reports a poll showing that those upstarts, the Palestinians, by 53 to 42 are against the two-state solution. Interesting. Commentary is full of righteousness on this, predictably. Who are we to talk to etc. Violence, selfishness, rejection. As if Palestinian attitudes don't in any way mirror those on the other side of the cycle of violence in that awful neighborhood we call the Middle East.
Anyway, with Commentary inveighing against the peace process forever, why should the Palestinians be for a two-state solution? They read Commentary too, don't they?
Memo to Israel: You're in an Arab neighborhood, Palestinians are gonna be there a long time. South African whites had to find a modus vivendi with indigenous Africans. Southern whites with southern blacks. Get with the multicultural program, Shlomo, you might dig it.
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Of course the indignation in the blog entry was about the lack of press coverage, not about the survey results themselves. Kind of a trivial thing for them to whine about, but still it would be nice to paraphrase them accurately.
The issue is relevant because Palestinians, even Hamas, are often described in the Western press as fighting for independence in the West Bank and Gaza. That is misleading at best.
Here's a survey question that should be asked of Palestinians but never is: Suppose that as a result of a peace agreement with Israel, a Palestinian state were created in Gaza and the West Bank; would you then support the state's armed suppression of Palestinian groups which continued the struggle to liberate all of Palestine?
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