Shocking to imagine that a Republican congressman is calling for Palestinians to have second-class citizenship in a land far away from ours, but here’s Joe Walsh, whose district swings Democratic and includes a lot of Chicago’s northwestern suburbs, doing that in the Washington Times:
The only viable solution for the Middle East is a one-state solution: one contiguous Israeli state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. There will not and cannot be lasting peace in the Middle East until then…
The two-state solution can never work when one of the domains, the Palestinian state, does not even acknowledge the other state’s (Israel‘s) right to exist and has as its entire purpose in life wiping Israel off the face of the earth. Never will peace come when one side possesses such hate and routinely expresses that hate through violence and blood. It is time to let go of the two-state-solution insanity and adopt the only solution that will bring true peace to the Middle East: a single Israeli state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
This solution is the best for everyone, especially the Palestinians. They will trade their two corrupt and inept governments and societies for a stable, free and prosperous one. Those Palestinians who wish to may leave their Fatah– and Hamas-created slums and move to the original Palestinian state: Jordan.
brilliant! adopt the only solution that will bring true peace : ethnic cleansing!
It’s amazing how these Israel firsters assume that if they are pitching for Israel it’s o.k. to be a racist or that no one will see them racist.
Here’s another one:…….this is Beinart idea of ‘discussion’?…featuring a racist like this Open Zion?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/03/a-three-state-solution.html
I have another slogan now….’Israel legitimizes racism. That’s their “achievement”…. their ‘contribution’ to the world.
Expect the liberal Zionist ‘shoot-and-cry’ brigade to come around in a few years, those who were never liberals to begin with(Goldberg, Dershowitz et al) to this proposition.
It will look something like this:
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Yes, they will sigh with a heavy heart, this is far from ideal. And we should make the transition as peaceful as possible. In fact, we’re so good liberals that we will even sponsor their budgets to a large extent the first few years(actually those people won’t, nor will Israel, it will be the American taxpayer who will foot the bill under ‘security arrangements’).
We’ve tried it all and we cannot accept the 1 state solution, sorry, not after the Holocaust. Perhaps our peoples can live in peace if they have some distance, perhaps, if one might dream a little, might some of them return one day?
But we’ve tried it all, and it’s useless to blame anyone now. Create a new state in Jordan, we will do everything we can to help them succeed. We don’t like this, believe us, it hurts a lot. And it has made us depressed(I even started taking Xanax…) but it’s come to this. There’s no other way out. Those who criticize us always wanted to destroy Israel. The extreme left and the extreme right both won.. us moderates in the middle are left holding the bag and we’re forced to this now…
So create a new state in Jordan. This is better than destroying Israel, as it will plunge into civil war. There will be bloodbath. I fear a new Holocaust. This is the only solution now, after the zealots on both sides of the political spectrum won. Us liberals are simply too nice. To be liberal is to be divided etc etc. From now on, however, we must never fold to these two extremist camps, both on the right and on the left. We musn’t let the zealots dictate the agenda anymore. It’s their fault this happened, while we stayed mum and let them run the show.
This must change.
And the first step to that is a new, fresh start in Jordan. Free from the historical baggage and bad blood. Avoiding the end of Israel and the horror of a new Holocaust. It is the only way out now. It breaks my heart, believe me, it does. But we are now forced into this position, betrayed by all centrists who refused to stand up against the extremists. May we never return to that situation ever again, and most importantly of all, may we never forget about peace!
// Liberal Zionist over ‘n’ out.
The best solution for Israel …
… that a Jewish friend suggested to me long ago was: Have a few resorts for Jewish pilgrims to come on vacation and visit their holy sites – plus a large cemetery for those who want to be buried in the Holy Land. The rest of Jewry would be in the diaspora, by historical standards the ‘natural’ state of Jewry.
Walsh’s Hasbarrow overfloweth with distilled ignorance.