Eldad Yaniv in Haaretz is trying to save Partition, save the two-state solution. None of that desperation has yet come to the U.S., where we don’t have a clue about the crisis. It will come soon. Peevish post: Note that Yaniv gets the #s wrong on Partition. It gave more than half the land to Jews, who then comprised about one-third of the population. Yes I know, a small point, but it is evidence of the imbalanced history here. And young Americans should be aware of same as they look at the idea of a “Jewish democratic” state that is more Palestinian than America is Afro-American… Yaniv’s SOS:
In 1947 the world ended the refugee life of the Jewish people, when it decided on the division of Mandatory Palestine and the establishment of two nation states. A moment before Israel turns into a binational state, the world has returned to the old and courageous option: dividing Mandatory Palestine into two nation states…
Every Zionist understands that Israel is not withdrawing and certainly is not giving in to the Palestinians. The opposite is true: the Palestinian liberation movement is the one admitting that the Zionist liberation movement achieved a historic victory that changed reality, both in the War of Independence and in the Six-Day War. The world, which in 1947 divided the country with our consent – 55 percent to the Arabs and 45 percent to Israel – is now proposing a new, almost incomprehensible division: 78 percent to Israel, 22 percent to Palestine.
