A Realistic Solution To The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

[ericson00]

Here's a great piece:

A generation has passed since the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians. The Oslo Accords were guided by the concept that the two-state solution would finally resolve the conflict—but two decades later, Israelis and Palestinians remain caught in a sad, frustrating and vicious cycle that must be broken. Dramatic events in the Middle East offer unprecedented conditions for such a breakthrough, because today, for the first time, Israel and major Arab states share long-term strategic interests: blocking Iran’s expansion; fostering stability; and diminishing militant Islamic momentum.
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Hopelessness and endless conflict can be replaced by a peaceful future, but only if we act differently. We must put aside the concept of an Israeli-Palestinian agreement in favor of an Israeli-Arab agreement as the only realistic means to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Such agreement is achievable today more than ever before.

[underpants]

1. Sounds reasonable

It'll never happen

[Fozzledick]

2. Huh? How would that work when the Palestinians refuse to cease hostilities

and Iran keeps arming and funding terrorist groups?

Sure, it would be nice if Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq finally gave up their endless state of war and signed a peace treaty, but how would that change the reality in the West Bank and Gaza while Hamas and the PLO still refuse?

[ericson00]

3. maybe they just need to put an end to the PLO and Hamas

and accept that the way the PLO/"Palestinian" as separate-but-not-separate from "The Arab Nation/Arab Street" flopped miserably. Egypt should take back the Gaza Strip and Jordan the West Bank.

[Depaysement]

4. Except it doesn't solve anything

It's another "peace process" where Israel gets the security of a cease fire and the Palestinians get . . . . a process. Such a deal.

[BillZBubb]

5. Realistic my ass. You'd have the Israelis and some Arab countries deciding the fate of

the Palestinians. That will never fly. Nor should it.

[King_David]

6. Yes because the Palestinians are gaining so much from the status quo

As if they are in a strong position.

[Little Tich]

7. I think it would be good if Israel could sit down and discuss the Palestinian issue, but

unfortunately the only realistic discussion would be how to implement the one-state solution peacefully. There's no two-state solution anymore, Israel never wanted it, and Netanyahu killed it.

[Fozzledick]

8. There is no "one-state solution".

That's just a euphemism for genocidal war to destroy Israel.

The only reason there aren't two states is that the Palestinians have consistently rejected any peaceful solution.

[shira]

9. There's no 2 state solution b/c Palestinians & folks like yourself have always rejected 2 states...

Neither you or the Palestinians can ever accept a Palestinian state living side by side next to a Jewish state. You'd rather see the Jewish state eliminated altogether rather than see a Palestinian state next to it.

That's been the problem all along, not Netanyahu or any other bogeyman.

[ericson00]

10. its not even about a "Palestinian state" being side by side with anyone;

its about there even being a Jewish state ANYWHERE. If the Jews had found a deserted Island in the Carribean, anti-Israel types would go crying for the wildlife and make up endangered species that weren't even endangered.

[shira]

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