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Is two-state solution even still possible?
The Media Line
Published: 07.12.13, 08:57
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1. Still?
Thinking Jew ,   Israel   (12.07.13)
2 state delusion, by Obama-like naive liberals, is all it ever was.
2. Why on earth create another Islamo-fascist , Arab entity on
tom ,   tel aviv   (12.07.13)
our doorstep?! Seriously folks: the Kurds have no country, Basks, Armenians & tens of other, much more deserving (real) people's aspirations go unsupported by that phoney "International Community"! Why grant it to bloodthirsty usurpers, only because their equally bloodthirsty cousins in Arabia have access to oil? Soon we will have alternative energy sources (like fusion reactors) and then the goat herding, neo-Neanderthal followers of Allah will return to the sands of their deserts and to the cellar of history. Nuff said.
3. Who invented second states for second people?
Miron ,   USA   (12.07.13)
4. # 3 Miron
BUILD BABY BUILD ,   United States   (12.07.13)
Who invented the second state? obama the second he took office. A second rate impostor at best.. Until and unless he is impeached. KEEP BUILDING !!!!!
5. A bunch of Jews from Chelm.
michael ,   Israel   (12.07.13)
Thunderous applause from the flat earth society.
6. #2 Don't the Armenians have Armenia?
Mark ,   London, UK   (12.07.13)
Many new states have been created by partition. A few that come to mind: Pakistan and Bangladesh created out of India; nation states created in the Balkans; Germans expelled from E Europe; Greeks out of Egypt. Blacks out of Darfur. The sad result were a number of Nakbas in the post-war years. Only the Pals call it genocide and demand a right to return with the sole objective of claiming majority rights to destroy a democratic society.....the sort of society they are unable to create for themselves. For all the sympathy their self-induced plight generates it's hard for any responsible state to go along with their demands while inspirational leadership is lacking.
7. NATO enters from Jordan & transfers Arabs to Mecca for Peace
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.07.13)
8. Two states are only possible ....
Luiz F Haddad ,   Niteroi, Brazil   (12.07.13)
if Arab Palestine's leaders agree with a honorous peace, through redrawed borders that don't endanger Israel; and being demilitarized. Beyond it, no "right of return". About the Jewish State, radical "annexionism" must never prevail.
9. Already a Two people's Reality
Zechariah   (12.07.13)
There is a Two people's Reality which cannot be resolved into Two States.The two people's generally hate Eachother but are coNeeded.Everyone needs an enemy from Tea Party Republicans and liberal democrats to Shia Jihadi and Sunni Jihadi and Gangster cartels ..There can be truces like between India and Pakistan .Most people want Survival.
10. Time to look for alternatives
Zev ,   Israel   (12.07.13)
and not to keep saying that there are no alternatives.
11. To: Mark at No. 6
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.07.13)
New states have been created when two sides agree to partition. When one side does not, as was the case with the Arabs in 1947, and chooses to go to war instead -- well, you need to be darned sure that that is a war you will win. The Arabs did not. They lost five more times, too. Not to mention seven decades of unremitting violence and terror visited against the Jewish people, both in the State of Israel and in the Diaspora. Everyone cries bitter tears over the self-generated "plight" of the Arabs. No one remembers the one million Jews who were unceremoniously expelled from Arab and Moslem nations; forced to leave with little more than the clothes on their backs. Double standard? To be sure. But its genesis has nothing to do with the Arabs, and everything to do with anti-Semitism. Jew-hatred has never disappeared; while on the rise in quite a few countries (including, interestingly enough, in countries which are pretty much Judenrein), the chief object of anti-Semitism is the State of Israel, that most tangible and concrete symbol of the Jewish people. So no -- a two-state solution is not possible. Wars have settled that issue -- six times. Terrorism has made the impossibility of a two-state solution a foregone conclusion. And no amount of spin or anti-Semitism or hatred of the State of Israel changes international convention, statute, precedent and fact. The State of Israel is here to stay. The Arabs are fresh out of bites at the apple. If bleeding-heart Europeans or Asians want to give some of their vast land holdings to be a state for the Arabs who illegally squat in Judea and Samaria -- fine, let them. The Arabs have as much ties to those places as they do to the State of Israel -- which is to say, none whatsoever.
12. Two States Israel & Jordan
Bear Klein ,   USA   (12.07.13)
This is how the mandate was divided (Jordan for the Arabs and Israel for the Jews). Israel should annex Area C and what is needed for security in Area B. Area A can be an autonomous entity short of mililtary. The Palestinians of the West Bank had Jordanian citizenship (they should get it back). Palestinians already make up 80% of Jordan. So here are your two states for two peoples.
13. #11 Pointing a finger
On the Balcony   (12.07.13)
Bear in mind that when you are pointing a finger at someone your other three fingers are pointing back at you. Many if not most of the commentators (and writers) that you attack here are not anti-semites, nor self-haters but Jews and Zionists.
14. The original Two-States for two peoples solution still works
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.07.13)
Greater Israel with WB/Golan Heights on one hand and Jordan on the other hand are the two states that came into being after dividing the original mandate of British Palestine. No need for a three states solution.
15. The two state final solution is DEAD !
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (12.07.13)
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