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This vision of a two-state solution is not shared by the Palestinian Authority, either, who in 2000 was offered and rejected an independent sovereign state in almost all of the West Bank and Gaza, without a single settlement in sight, and a capital in east Jerusalem. They rejected the offer because it did not include an agreement by Israel to be flooded with millions of Palestinian Arabs living in refugee camps in the West Bank. If the Palestinian Authority had accepted that suicidal offer, it could have had an army with tanks and planes, with only a 10-mile-wide stretch of Israel between them and the Mediterranean Sea. The lunacy of the two-state solution becomes even more apparent when one realizes that in the 28 years since the Oslo Accords, the existence of four de facto Palestinian states did not stop terrorism.

Guterres believes that there can be peace once the Palestinian Arabs cease suffocating under Israel occupation, but are they suffocating? Are they occupied? Who is occupying whom? A poll carried out by the Palestine News Network found that 93% of Arab residents of East Jerusalem preferred to live under Israeli governance rather than that of the Palestinian Authority. One would almost think that the Palestinian Authority and not Israel is the suffocating occupier.

What I’ve noticed in reading the articles and the responses is that few people have any notion of what might work, the short answer is nothing, or how to implement it. People are just sick of the whole thing. For most of my life an area smaller than the county I live in has occupied much of the news and nobody cares. We just want it to go away. The Arab solution is the same as the “final solution.” The Israeli “solution” is to just live with it. Frankly, we’d all be better off to edit the whole thing from our consciousness and let the Israelis continue to deal with living with it however they see fit.

I’ve worked with and gone to college with a few Palestinians. There is no solution that will work for them. Even if they killed all the Jews, all that would mean is they’d spend more time killing each other as apostates. The fact that the Jews exist is probably the only reason there isn’t more Muslim on Muslim violence. Think of the Catholic/protestant wars, but with 50% more blood.

My sense is that America is just done with the whole thing. Muslims should pay more attention to what isn’t happening in America and maybe consider moving into, at least, the tenth century.