For Melanie Phillips, the two-state solution to Israel/Palestine is the “final solution” for Jews. I can’t believe some people continue to take this woman seriously - she’s a hysterical windbag. And yet when some Muslims use the word “genocide” or “holocaust” to talk about what has happened to Palestinians, they are beyond the pale.
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PickledPolitics on 18th May 2009 (via pickledpolitics.com)
When it comes to the conflict between Israel and "Palestinians", the liberal consensus is that a "Two State Solution" is the best way forward. However, I was pleased to read that there is a 23 State solution. This is from Steven Plaut... "I call it the 23-state solution. The Arabs get to keep the 22 states they already have and the Jews keep the one state they have. The Palestinians get no state. ...
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ATangledWeb on 4th Jun 2009 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
From the Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki, a member of Fatah which, as we all know, unlike Hamas is the ‘moderate’ party which will deliver a two-state solution and peace with Israel: Therefore, it is high time that we found a final, comprehensive solution...With the two-state solution, in my opinion, Israel will collapse, because if they get out of Jerusalem, what will bec...
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CliveDavis on 15th May 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)
Writing in the Melbourne newspaper The Age, Yakov Rabkin, professor of history at the University of Montreal, argues that Israel could learn something from Australia's National Sorry Day, and acknowledge the wrongs that Israel has inflcited on the Palestinians, just...
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NormanGeras on 1st Jun 2009 (via normblog.typepad.com)
For any of you who still don't understand why the vision of a two state solution, with a `democratic Palestinian state living in peace next to Israel' is a fantasy, this story from the AP might just open your eyes a bit. The American Jewish Committee and Israeli heiress Shari Arison, Israel's wealthiest woman had funded a group called Strings of Freedom, a small Palestinian youth or...
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JOSHUAPUNDIT on 29th Mar 2009 (via joshuapundit.blogspot.com)
On a trip to Israel and the West Bank, Mick Hume sees the ‘two-state solution’ already leading to a new partition between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Spiked on 17th Dec 2008 (via spiked-online.com)
I see that renowned political scientist and erstwhile comedienne Roseanne Bar has come up with a solution for the Middle East... "I am going to move to israel and run for president there and win. When I am elected, I will make peace for my people and help to turn Israel into the socialist paradise that German and Russian Jews meant for it to be. I would first pay all the palestinians really well a...
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ATangledWeb on 30th Jan 2009 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
A glimpse of the shape of things to come in this new Rasmussen poll... "Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans back Israel’s decision to take military action against the Palestinians, but only half as many Democrats (31%) agree. A majority of Democrats (55%) say Israel should have tried to find a diplomatic solution first, a view shared by just 27% of Republicans. While 75% of Republicans sa...
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ATangledWeb on 2nd Jan 2009 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
Saree Makdisi argues that a 'two-state solution is no longer possible' for Israel and the Palestinians. On the contrary... The only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to end the denial of rights that fuels it, and to ensure...
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NormanGeras on 28th Jul 2008 (via normblog.typepad.com)
Barack Obama offered his clearest pledge since taking office to pursue a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians and urged the two sides not to "give in to pessimism and mistrust."
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FT on 6th Apr 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Here's a second horse from the same stable as this one. Ghada Karmi is criticizing 'the inequity and dishonesty of the two-state solution' and urging the 'fairer and more durable' one-state solution for Israel and Palestine. Her argument contains two...
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NormanGeras on 25th Sep 2008 (via normblog.typepad.com)