TILLERSON: I think that's the dream everyone is in pursuit of. Whether it can be a reality remains to be seen.
Neither John Bolton nor any other well-briefed nominee would have responded with those words.
Kaine was trying to get Tillerson to commit to the two-state solution as stare decisis and Tillerson fell for it.
The two-state solution is but one of several options, but in the view of the Democrats, it is the only option.
The problem is that we are left wondering whether Tillerson was merely not well briefed, was ignorant on a key policy issue or actually believes that the two-state solution will be the Trump administration's position.
As for Netanyahu, I believe that he supports the two-state solution only because he knows that the PA will never recognize Israel's right to exist and therefore never be able to enter into negotiations. Naftali Bennett can say what he really thinks, since he is not PM. I hope that he is a future PM.
“As for Netanyahu, I believe that he supports the two-state solution only because he knows that the PA will never recognize Israel’s right to exist and therefore never be able to enter into negotiations.”
If it were only a matter of making speeches paying lip service, you’d be right. But he has had left-wingers in his cabinet such as Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni, and through such proxies he’s had people rousted out of their homes by Druze soldiers, and sent in bulldozers. You are talking about families with small children, occupying particle-board hutches they built themselves with nothing but carpeting for floors, and you’re talking concrete block houses. Their belongings were left scattered on the ground and the neighboring Arabs looted them with impunity. Since in at least one instance, these were friends of mine, I’d say his commitment to a two-state solution has gone too far. Giving 97% of Hebron to the PA was also too far. Ask Hadassa Tehiyya, if you don’t think so.