Rabbi: With all due respect, the placing of Native Americans on reservations is not viewed with favor these days. Therefore, your proposal or analogy for doing the same to the Pals will not be well received. Moreover, neither Egypt nor Jordan would be interested in your plan; and, therefore it is a "non-starter" right out the gate.

already-jordan and israel...the Land is too small for a third to be viable let alone a terrorist state---gaza can belong again to egypt andsecure boundaries establihed with jordan and ,as important,just as arabs live peacefully under israeli law, jews can live with whichever the local laws are applicable States,not terrorists, make and keep peace.

the sooner you realise that there needs to be a 2 state solution the sooner there will be peace.

or there should be no Israel and no palistine, make a new country called israpalitine and live happily ever after.

did that sound stupid?
i thought so but then again so does your idea!!

please think with your brain and not ur heart.
i beg you

Your commentaries regarding religious issues are very inspiring and I love to read them.

But in international issues and politics, well, sorry, but you suck.

And let me give just a few arguments why, based only on your present text:

1) You say: "With the Hamas takeover of Gaza and the enmity that exists between it and Fatah it has became that the Palestinians were unable to govern themselves as one entity."
Let me ask you: WHICH COUNTRY has "one entity" as its formal government? The problem of Palestinians is not the multitude of political ideas, presented in parties, but in their political culture: gun, bomb and AK47 are justified ways of expressing discontent and non-agreement with other side.
So, their problem is violence, not absence of "one entity".

2) Camp David Accords, yes, called for "full autonomy" BUT ALSO FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF UN SC 242. Which calls for withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the 1976 conflict, as well as termination of all claims or states of belligerency.
Which basically is - 2 state solution. :) Said nicely, not to offend anybody, but - that it is. :)

3) And this is peachy: "Instead we must look for models that have worked elsewhere. One good example may be the Native Americans in the United States. Indian Reservations in the United States give Native Americans limited sovereignty and autonomy over their economy and education systems; however, they do not have their own military and they are subject to federal law. "

Dear rabbi, if you didn't pay attention:
a) That happened long, long time ago when something called CIVIL RIGHTS and INTERNATIONAL LAWS either didn't exist or were not in their present form
b) The strongest argument of "racist Israel" is - Palestinians are treated as Indians and Israeli are colonists, so your move would make them right
c) You really think that Palestinians would agree on that without serious fight, this time ALL over Israel
d) You think that international community would agree on very dangerous precedence, like allowing a country that is legally democratic - to put its minority in a modern ghetto versions?!

America is not touched in Indian matter because of:
a) The reservations are dating FAR LONGER than it is prohibited by international laws and standards (principle of "no law will be used ad retro")
b) Indians AGREE on reservations today because of VERY special rights they have.

So, dear rabbi, hate to brake it to you this way (most likely I will be censored, they usually censor dangerous questions and arguments around here) - but who knows Mishna, Gemara and Torah, DOES NOT necessarily knows international law and politics.

Rabbi, I need you to do some REAL soul-searching. To even SUGGEST that the raw deal the indigenous people of what we now call North America be looked to as a model for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict tells me that you either don't know your history or you agree with further demoralizing the Palestinian people.

Please refrain from such ill-informed suggestions to our president regarding foreign policy. AIPAC and Israel already have MORE than enough undue influence with our government.

I have no doubt Obama will abandon the 2 state solution. Unfortunately his one state solution won't include there being an Israel.

Either one could accept one million
Gazans in the vast empty space of
Saudi Arabia and Sinai and bring
peace to the Middle East. But
neither will accept Hamas
terrorists living amongst them.
Meanwhile the Saudis and Egypt
are thriilled that Hamas is
Israels problem and are
thankful that Hamas stays
just where they are as a
thorn in Israel's siide.

With all due respect, Rabbi Levi Brackman's attitude towards a Democratically elected leadership is unbecoming of a man of his position. To ignore an entire group of people is the mentality that the Jews are better than their neighbors.
Israel didnt exist 60 years ago and now you feel you can dictate who the rightful leaders to represent your neighbors. ???

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401434.html

The only solution - topple Islam. Hopefully it will be a peaceful toppling.

If Torah and all the scriptures are right, then you should have Massiach by next 200 years (if I remember correctly, 6.000 is the last year).

In the Massiach era, ALL of Israel will be back to Israelies, the Temple will be built and everything will be peachy.

So, either:
1) Torah/additional scriptures are right, and you have no worry, because if you give Palestinians land today, Massiach will give it you back tomorrow - no, Palestinians, knowing that they were wrong and you are right, will give that land back to you, willifuly and peaceffully

2) Torah/additional scriptures are wrong, you will not get that land back, but you clamed the land based on false pretext (that Torah is right and you have right on that land), so be happy you actually got what you got.

Is the Rabbi writing in the Jewish World section as apolitical columnist or as a spriritual advisor?
Is his perspective based in Colorado or Israel?

in today's New York Times. If most Arabs and most Jews oppose a two state solution, why not a single state.
Property claims can be bought out, but Jews will never give up Hevron and the Har ha-Bayis, and the Muslims won't either, so maybe sharing is better???

First, thank you for being rational enough to see how both sides have contributed to this. It is helpful to read that Palestinians do see this.

I have fears and anger as do you and your people. I can't agree to all that you said but that doesn't matter. It is important that we talk and find solutions for all.

We need to explore this idea more. It would be better from a security point of view than the current situation.

Right now, there is no government that is held directly responsible for terrorism. The Palestinian Authority should be held responsible as they are supposed to be in charge but they can't (or won't) control Hamas.

The only problem is the possibility of an Islamist party winning elections in Egypt. Then what?

So, the author of the article wants to deny Palestinians even the smallest sliced State of their own on their natural land. The easiest solution will be for the occupiers who came from all over the world to leave the country for the Palestinians who are in fact the real owners of the land.

All is not lost then ....

While I agree with the Rabbi, Rabbi Levi Brackman that a 2 State solution is a mistake, I disagree with the Rabbi concerning Gaza and the West Bank territories being Egyptian and Jordanian lands. If the Rabbi would read the Old Testament which in English Genesis 15 and verses 18-21 God tells Abram (before he was renamed Abraham by God) that the land belongs to God and He is giving it to the Jewish people. There are numerous other passages in God's Word where God tells the Jewish nation over and over that the land is theirs. It does not belong to the Gentiles at all. When the Messiah, Jesus Christ of Nazareth returns He will set up His throne in Jerusalem and there will finally be peace in the Middle East and the whole world.

The one state solution for Jews only will only continue the perpetual calamity between Palestinians and Jews. If you are against the 2 State, then you must accept all the Palestinians as Israeli Citizens, Israel would be a Jewish and Muslim State, as America isn't run by Religion the same will apply to the Israeli Government.