Posted on 05/25/2009 1:56:02 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
Who Favors a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict?
President Obama does, of course, as he made clear in welcoming Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Monday. So does former President George W. Bush, who began advocating Palestinian statehood in 2002 and continued until his final days in office. The Democratic Party's national platform endorses a two-state solution; the Republican platform does, too. The UN Security Council unanimously reaffirmed its support a few days ago. The European Union is strongly in favor as well -- so strongly that the EU's foreign-policy chief, Javier Solana, has been warning Israel that its relations with Europe "will be very, very different" if it drops the two-state ball.
Pope Benedict XVI called for a Palestinian state during his recent visit to the Holy Land, thereby aligning himself -- on this issue, at least -- with the editorial boards of The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. And, for that matter, with most Israelis. A new poll shows 58 percent of the Israeli public backing a two-state solution; prominent supporters include Netanyahu's three predecessors -- former prime ministers Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Barak -- as well as president Shimon Peres.
The consensus, it would seem, is overwhelming. As Henri Guaino, a senior adviser to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, put it in speaking to reporters on Sunday: "Everyone wants peace. The whole world wants a Palestinian state."
It isn't going to happen.
International consensus or no, the two-state solution is a chimera. Peace will not be achieved by granting sovereignty to the Palestinians, because Palestinian sovereignty has never been the Arabs' goal. Time and time again, a two-state solution has been proposed. Time and time again, the Arabs have turned it down.
In 1936, when Palestine was still under British rule, a royal commission headed by Lord Peel was sent to investigate the steadily worsening Arab violence. After a detailed inquiry, the Peel Commission concluded that "an irrepressible conflict has arisen between two national communities within the narrow bounds of one small country." It recommended a two-state solution -- a partition of the land into separate Arab and Jewish states. "Partition offers a chance of ultimate peace," the commission reported. "No other plan does."
But the Arab leaders, more intent on preventing Jewish sovereignty in Palestine than in achieving a state for themselves, rejected the Peel plan out of hand. The foremost Palestinian leader, Haj Amin al-Husseini, actively supported the Nazi regime in Germany. In return, Husseini wrote in his memoirs, Hitler promised him "a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world."
In 1947, the Palestinians were again presented with a two-state proposal. Again they spurned it. Like the Peel Commission, the United Nations concluded that only a division of the land into adjacent states, one Arab and one Jewish, could put an end to the conflict. On Nov. 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly debated -- and by a vote of 33-13 adopted -- Resolution 181, partitioning Palestine on the basis of population. Had the Arabs accepted the UN decision, the Palestinian state that "the whole world wants" would today be 61 years old. Instead, the Arab League vowed to block Jewish sovereignty by waging "a war of extermination and a momentous massacre."
Over and over this pattern has been repeated. Following its stunning victory in the 1967 Six Day War, Israel offered to exchange the land it had won for permanent peace with its neighbors. From their summit in Khartoum came the Arabs' notorious response: "No peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel, no recognition of Israel."
At Camp David in 2000, Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians virtually everything they claimed to be seeking -- a sovereign state with its capital in East Jerusalem, 97 percent of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, tens of billions of dollars in "compensation" for the plight of Palestinian refugees. Yasser Arafat refused the offer, and launched the bloodiest wave of terrorism in Israel's history.
To this day, the charters of Hamas and Fatah, the two main Palestinian factions, call for Israel's liquidation. "The whole world" may want peace and a Palestinian state, but the Palestinians want something very different. Until that changes, there is no two-state solution.
Pretty much sums it all up.
Time and time again, the Arabs have turned it down.
But the retards in government couldn’t see that if you hit them in the head with it. Muslilms want the destruction of Israel and that’s it. Hey, you useless egomanics in government pay attention for once before Israel and America are no more.
Arabs interested in a no-peace state.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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It ain’t gonna happen. Egypt doesn’t want it (they need a terrorist state allied with Iran on their border like a hole in the head). Jordan doesn’t want it (they have enough trouble with the Palestinian majority inside their own borders as it is). Saudi Arabia doesn’t want it (an Iranian-armed proxy itching to start a war with Israel or those apostates in Egypt or Jordan would be too de-stabilizing). The Palestinians don’t want it (as the article points out, their main objective is to eliminate Israel - after that, do they want to be involved with the messy, boring business of governing themselves? Nah, better to be absorbed into a neighboring entity like Syria, who will take care of governing).
Palestinian Authority Demands Israel Stop Building in Jerusalem
Israel National News | May 25. 2009 | Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Posted on 05/25/2009 2:17:00 PM PDT by Tzvi INN.com
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257987/posts
Is Obama Another Jimmy Carter?
[or will he make 1977-1981 seem like the good old days?]
Forbes | 05.25.09, 11:35 AM EDT | B. Raman
Posted on 05/25/2009 2:18:43 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257990/posts
Wait a minute. This can’t be right. For decades I’ve heard over and over again that Israel is an obstruction to peace and Arabs are mistreated by the Nazi Israeli regimes. It must be true. U.S. jews, Europe and the UN keep criticizing Israel and the UN Human rights council keep passing never ending resolutions against Israel. There must be something to it. Even our President is trying to twist Israel’s arm. Now I’m confused. Do you mean to tell me that the Palestinians are really the ones at fault. How could that possibly be of people stuffed into Israeli concentration camps? What power do they have that would allow them to fight. I guess I’ll have to do some more studying.
Maybe I’ll ask the Arab leaque for some input so that I can make a fair opinion. It’s all so confusing. Oh, wait a minute. I now have a 1967 Arab map of the middle east in front of me and I can’t find Israel on the map anywhere. What gives?
And I have an Arab middle school textbook that reflects text pointing out that Jews came from apes and pigs and that all jews must be exterminated. /s
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