Original geography of Palestine:
Posted on 11/23/2010 2:37:03 PM PST by Nachum
Much has justly been written about the Obama administration’s mishandling of Israeli-Palestinian talks. But it’s important to remember that the real barrier to an agreement isn’t flawed American diplomacy but rather the Palestinians’ refusal to accept Israel’s right to exist. Nothing better illustrates this fact than a stunning new poll by The Israel Project.
Like every other poll in recent years, TIP found that a strong majority of Palestinians (60 percent) accept a two-state solution. This unvarying finding is often cited as proof that Palestinians do, in fact, accept Israel’s existence.
But unlike any other poll I’ve ever seen, TIP thought to ask the all-important follow-up question: is the goal a permanent two-state solution, or is the goal “to start with two states but then move to it all being one Palestinian state?”
Only 30 percent chose the first option, while fully 60 percent deemed two states a mere stepping-stone to Israel’s ultimate eradication. In other words, the PLO’s “Phased Plan” of 1974 is alive and kicking.
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Time for this crap to stop. Everyone in the world knows that the Paltinians don’t want piece as long as Israel is around. Let them go out and may the best man win. Get it over with.
We should stay out of this, and let Israel do what it has to do to survive.
“Most Palestinians View Two States as Step toward Eradicating Israel”
So does Obama.
I think G.W. Bush was the 1st prez to push for the “2-state solution”.
The only objective the Palestinians have ever professed to have is the total destruction of Israel; a fact that the left and the MSM constantly overlook. As usual, the left pursues a fantasy agenda without having the slightest idea where it will end up.
and in other news,the sky is blue.
So? Obama is a raving anti-semitic...GWB is not.
No US administration should ever have made one attempt to negotiate a settlement between Israel and the Arabs until all all Arab nations recognized Israel’s right to exist. This poll result is not news to anyone remotely knowledgeable about the Middle East.
couldn’t agree more.
we always try to cut deals with people who only make bad faith deals. (NK comes to mind,too)
Anyone who doesn't understand by now that the Palestinian issue is really all about annihilating Israel needs to soak their head.
Tell them to go to the other half of Palestine and stop making up phony stories.
Jordan is the other half.
Nope.
It was President Clinton who first pushed for the two state solution.
Oslo Accords.
thanks, I sit corrected.
No problemo.
Post on
the made-up victim group called palastinians are the most useful pathetic group of humanoids on the planet, folloed closly by romas.
Those are not the 1922 boundaries of Transjordan—the border with Iraq used to be a straight line with no zig-zag, and the border with Arabia has also been changed (the southeast part of Jordan used to bulge out more—they gave up some land to Saudi Arabia...I don’t remember when but I think within the last 30 or 40 years).
Close enough?
I was in a hurry.
Nope!
Nope!
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