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The nonviable notion of a Palestinian state
I don't love the message, but I am having real trouble dsiputing any of the content of this article.
While this guy clearly has an interest in perpetuating Israeli control over the west bank, putting that interest aside, I don't see where he is wrong.
Is everybody pushing to develop a terrorist state in the west bank, or does anyone genuinely believe there is any other potential outcome?
Like I've said before, my view is that there is pretty much zero chance this process will result in an agreement and that agreement will be implemented, largely (ok, entirely) because the Palestinian leadership has not actually made that leap where it is prepared to end the conflict or stop pursuing Israel's destruction, and in any event tey have not, over the past 20 years, taken any steps to deradicalize the population and ready them to accept compromise (in fact they have consistantly done precisely the opposite).
But this is different - this is saying that pretty much no matter what, no matter who is in charge in the PA and what they genuinely want to achieve, there STILL could not be peace because it necessarily will be a short time between any pull-out and the time when radical rejectionists seize power.
Which seems to make sense.
I don't love the message, but I am having real trouble dsiputing any of the content of this article.
While this guy clearly has an interest in perpetuating Israeli control over the west bank, putting that interest aside, I don't see where he is wrong.
Is everybody pushing to develop a terrorist state in the west bank, or does anyone genuinely believe there is any other potential outcome?
Like I've said before, my view is that there is pretty much zero chance this process will result in an agreement and that agreement will be implemented, largely (ok, entirely) because the Palestinian leadership has not actually made that leap where it is prepared to end the conflict or stop pursuing Israel's destruction, and in any event tey have not, over the past 20 years, taken any steps to deradicalize the population and ready them to accept compromise (in fact they have consistantly done precisely the opposite).
But this is different - this is saying that pretty much no matter what, no matter who is in charge in the PA and what they genuinely want to achieve, there STILL could not be peace because it necessarily will be a short time between any pull-out and the time when radical rejectionists seize power.
Which seems to make sense.