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WHY THERE CAN NEVER BE A TWO-STATE SOLUTION
Powerline ^ | 20 Nov 2023 | Steven Hayward

Posted on 11/20/2023 2:56:33 PM PST by Rummyfan

One of the surprises in the weeks since October 7 is that two of the clearest voices on the matter are Bill and Hillary Clinton. To be sure, there is a personal reason behind this: Bill Clinton in particular resents Yasser Arafat for refusing to take the highly generous two-state deal Clinton helped broker at great length back in 1999 and 2000. Clinton managed to get Israel to agree to massive concessions, which Clinton describes in the short clip below (where it sounds like he is standing up to a pro-Hamas heckler): “I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza… between 96 and 97% of the West Bank, compensating land in Israel, you name it.”

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It has long been rumored that Clinton curses Arafat for costing him (Clinton) a certain Nobel Peace Prize and a more substantial presidential lagacy if the deal had gone through. Instead Arafat launched the second Intifada. I suspect Israel may have offered such sweeping concessions to call Arafat’s bluff.

For all of his political skill, Clinton didn’t understand why Arafat couldn’t take this deal—or any deal with Israel—quite aside from pure Jew-hatred: If Arafat had made a deal with Israel, he would have been assassinated, just as Anwar Sadat was killed for making peace with Israel. This is why there can never be a two-state solution. The most radical Islamists don’t want it. We ought to take them seriously when they say “To the river to the sea.” There is never going to be a two-state solution, but not because Israel won’t agree to it.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; israel; waronterror

1 posted on 11/20/2023 2:56:33 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Because Islam?


2 posted on 11/20/2023 3:01:11 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Rummyfan

Joel 3:2
King James Version

2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

10 Times That God Has Hit America With A Major Disaster After The U.S. Attempted To Divide The Land Of Israel

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3 posted on 11/20/2023 3:03:04 PM PST by patriot torch (..)
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To: Rummyfan

Because they would have to agree that Israel has a right to exist and their hatred won’t allow that.


4 posted on 11/20/2023 3:04:20 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: Rummyfan

#7 On May 3rd, 1999 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was supposed to hold a press conference to declare the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as the capital. On that precise day, the most powerful tornadoes ever recorded in the U.S. ripped through Oklahoma and Kansas. At one point one of the tornadoes actually had a recorded wind speed of 316 miles an hour.


5 posted on 11/20/2023 3:07:33 PM PST by patriot torch (..)
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To: Rummyfan

The Muslim craves rape and murder.

Like the Democrat.


6 posted on 11/20/2023 3:07:40 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: Paladin2

Absolutely
Islam does not coexist, it dominates.
Tolerance extends to imposing taxation on nonmuslims that accept subservience. This occurs when muslims reach a majority. Some groups such as Jews will not even be extended the grace of living as tax-paying vassals.
Therefore…no one-state solution, either.


7 posted on 11/20/2023 3:07:47 PM PST by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Rummyfan

One of the very few good things that Clinton did, along with having a budget surplus for a couple years. I can’t think of much else.


8 posted on 11/20/2023 3:14:25 PM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: silverleaf

History shows that Islam can’t coexist with Islam. Each sect thinks the others aren’t following true Islam so they have to destroy it.


9 posted on 11/20/2023 3:19:53 PM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: silverleaf

Been reading about the Nuristani tribes in Afghanistan. They resisted veing Islamised and practiced a kind of hinduism until they were brutally forcibly Islamised by Timur in the late 14th century. Basically, convert or we kill ya. And apart from demographics, that is the template


10 posted on 11/20/2023 3:34:24 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

hinduism or buddhism?


11 posted on 11/20/2023 3:50:21 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Deo volente

There was no budget surplus. It was BS accounting (SS fund’s surplus listed into the general fund) and massive sales of short term T bills at lower interest rates.....which all went away when the T bills were redeemed and refinanced at higher rates after Clinton left office.


12 posted on 11/20/2023 3:53:15 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Rummyfan

There will eventually be a two state solution or the one state left will be Palestinian. Every year the Arabs get stronger relative to Israel. If the Israelis think America will always be there for them, they’re wrong. The U.S. is rapidly losing power and credibility relative to the rest of the world. The U.S. is barely there for American citizens let alone the rest of the world. Israel and Taiwan should pay attention to what happens to Ukraine and plan accordingly.


13 posted on 11/20/2023 4:01:30 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: joshua c

They were Hindus


14 posted on 11/20/2023 4:13:35 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Rummyfan

In my humble opinion, none of this is difficult to understand. How can a two-state solution be rational when one party has sworn to annihilate the other? When people realize that what is going on is Biblical, maybe then they will get to the ‘why’ it’s happening. Until then most commentators play word games, not wanting to acknowledge the evils of Allah’s Quranic mandates to the Muslim faithful.


15 posted on 11/20/2023 4:15:18 PM PST by iontheball
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To: iontheball
There is no way to have good-faith negotiations (or a two-state solution) with someone who lives only to destroy you. I highly recommend "The Israeli Solution" by Caroline Glick for its in-depth history on this (especially the failed Clinton attempt), as well as for its proposal.
16 posted on 11/20/2023 5:39:02 PM PST by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: Blood of Tyrants

They will not settle for anything, but total annihilation of Israel.
Anything else they agree to is just temporal strategical concession.
Land for peace or two state solution is just wishful thinking of some idealistic lefties.


17 posted on 11/20/2023 6:45:33 PM PST by AZJeep
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To: Rummyfan

Islam is the ideology of conquest. Tn their earlier conquests they wrote the book on slavery.


18 posted on 11/20/2023 9:07:46 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: hardspunned

The flow of people through our Southern border has made us a nation of invasion. This invasion will cost the nation $650 billion and impact our national debt; making the ability to mount a military action an economic nation breaker. The clock is ticking.


19 posted on 11/20/2023 9:16:23 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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