[Alouette]

Palestinians will be mourning their own lost opportunity to translate all their sacrifices into a viable Palestinian state alongside instead of Israel."

Friedman is hallucinating again. The Palestinians never wanted a state "alongside" Israel.

[SJackson]

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[Starrgaizr]

There is another logical unilateral solution: a double wall creating an enclosed pocket with territory that Israel signals it would be willing to surrender -- eventually, some day -- in exchange for real peace. Or the pocket moves to nominal Palestinian "sovereignty" with some other practical arrangement regarding continued security for all who live there. The gates still are manned to keep weapons out, etc. But that's a long way off. A price must be paid for Arafat's refusal in 2000 and the subsequent terror war.

[alex]

"Friedman is hallucinating again..."

It is much worse than that, apparently he beleives that Israel has to give up part (may be whole) of its 1967 land in order to make Palestinian State viable.