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The international community is disincentivizing the Palestinians from negotiating a two-state solution

Alan M. Dershowitz Nov 10, 2015 10:02 PM


Why should the Palestinian leadership make peace with Israel, when the international community seems willing to recognize a Palestinian state without requiring its leaders to make the kinds of compromises that are essential to a viable two-state solution?

The Israelis offered the Palestinians a generous two-state solution under the leadership of then-prime ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert. Now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is urging them to sit down and begin unconditional negotiations. The Palestinian leadership have accepted none of these offers, because they foolishly believe they can get what they want without giving what they must.

The major fault for this impasse lies squarely on the shoulders of the international community, including the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the international media and many individual governments. They have led the Palestinian leadership to believe that if they can maintain the impasse with Israel by refusing to make the kinds of compromises required for a two-state solution, the international community would come to their rescue and impose such a solution on Israel.

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Hating Dershowitz doesn't refute his argument which is pretty clear-cut.

All the Palestinians have to do is keep saying 'No' to every offer Israel makes. They'll get their state anyway from the International Community. Why negotiate anything - why make peace? There's no incentive.