Some leftists are beginning to recognize reality:
US President Barack Obama and much of the international community blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the lack of a peace deal with the Palestinians. But even leading left-wing politicians admit it’s more complicated than that, and that a two-state solution is simply no longer viable.
“We have reached the point in time when there is no feasibility for the two-state solution,” said Zionist Union (Labor) MK Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin during a visit to the Etzion Bloc of Jewish settlements that she insisted “is a consensus in my party.”
Unfortunately, she still falls back on a weak position:
Still, even without birthing a Palestinian state and while retaining control of large Jewish settlement blocs, Nahmias-Verbin believes Israel must find a way to separate from the Palestinians.
“We need to create a security solution and that for my party the separation is that solution,” she told Israel National News.
If they cannot let go of this separation nonsense, then they truly have no faith in their ability to influence any community for the better. Why not ponder a better idea like differentiating between Muslims from Christians? I'm sure some of the latter would be very glad if they did that.
A Israeli consul general of Boston, who was a Labor Party (old WAAAAY left) member, and certainly STILL among the most left, told me 3-4 year ago, they all realized that the Palestinian PEOPLE were the issue since they would NEVER give up right of return. And that without that gone, there was very little that could be achieved since it meant there could never be peace.
ReplyDelete2 years ago a Haaretz/PBS reporter in the USA told me that the PLA was ready to swap right of rtn out since they 'knew' it meant no peace ever.
But as we can see, IT'S BULL.
Israel at this point should set up a wall 100% around a SINLGE west bank PLA area and allow autonomy inside that wall. Maybe dig 200 feet down to make the foundation.
They should make it clear in 'negotiations' with PLA b4 building this PERMANENT border, that's what the border will be.
ISR should recommend a referendum continuously over this to the west bank, and the people can then decide between real peace with no right of rtn, or perpetual enmity inside a giant wall THEY SELECTED, after unsuccessful "wars of annihilation"