Opinion  Ben-Dror Yemini
The Israeli Right’s campaign against Israel
Ben-Dror Yemini
Published: 04.06.18, 15:51
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1. Two State Final Solution intended to destroy Israel
Chaim ,   Israel   (06.04.18)
Just look at a map, Yemini. It is obvious to any child, capable of reading a map, that the Two State Final Solution would turn Israel into a helpless nine wide concentration camp. Or as Abba Eban described it, "the borders of Auschwitz". Not only do Judea and Samaria belong to Israel, they make Israel viable. "Palestinian" proponents of the Two State Final Solution have long recognized it as a step towards their goal of destroying Israel.
2. The safest solution for Israel
Moshe   (06.04.18)
Is state and autonomy solution, similar to the one we have now. Palestinians have an extended autonomy in Area A, with a parliament, juridical and education systems, apart from security force. Their geographic area could be increased to a part or whole area B in a final accord. Israel's construction in Judea and Samaria does not jeopardize the separation from PA, because it virtually is performed in Area C. The Palestinians will almost certainly reject such solution, because it doesn't bring closer Israel's destruction, and many Israel's friends side with them since they believe that all Palestinians want is a state within 1966 borders.
3. Arabs living here have 2 choices: either going back to their
(06.04.18)
real "Palestine, namely Jordan, or staying in Israel as full, peaceful partners in making this Land Great Again.
No additional Arab entity on our land, period.
4. Dress up, Caroline Glick, I'm coming to pick you up.
Camilo   (06.04.18)
It's two issues, not one:

1. Israel's "Um - Shmum" syndrome is the first. We have never internalized that the demonization tactics serving the delegitimization strategy is an existential threat. Israel should have more than a "Lauder school of public diplomacy" and a PM as a FM. It needs a FORMIDABLE anti-demonization agency, as competent in pop political psychology as Mossad is in intel and the IDF is in defense.

2. The Right is destroying the democratic Jewish state of Israel, building a one-state that will be either appartheid and pariah, or democratic and binational: Good bye to the one and only Jewish and democratic state.

The two do intersect, but are funademntally distinct existential threats.
5. too late for 2 states. there will be only 1 state for all
Khalid Amayreh ,   Occupied Jerusalem   (06.04.18)
6. The left has lost
mordechai   (06.04.18)
The left loses every election. It's policy of surrendering land in tatters after the disaster of abandoning Gaza. The american President supports settlements. It knows it's failed
7. The wrong premise
Gene   (06.04.18)
I support the "two state solution" but at the moment it looks as unrealistic as "one state". However, my main disagreement with "Europeans" is the "green line": it shouldn't be the line that divides both states. "West Bank" is not occupied but disputed territory and Jews have the same rights as Arabs on any part of it. The opposite ("European") view is basically racist. The "final solution" (if it will ever happen) should be based on "Lieberman plan".
8. Separation doesn't stop Pals from trying to destroy Israel.
Sam ,   Montreal   (06.04.18)
There is no one state plan. Israel is not annexing Palestinian populations. That is just Leftist scare mongering to try and force their minority views on Israel.
9. Not our problem
Expert   (06.04.18)
Please look up the Wikipedia article titled, "Aftermath of World War II." I quote, "Close to one-quarter of pre-war (1937) Germany was de facto annexed by the Allies; roughly 10 million Germans were either expelled from this territory or not permitted to return to it if they had fled during the war."

The same thing happened to Israel. We were attacked, we won, now the enemy has a problem. The same policy that was imposed on Germany should have been imposed here, as well. If you have a problem, address the allied countries who invented this policy. Yet, the Germans and all other refugees managed to build new lives for themselves where they were. They grew up at some point and accepted defeat.

The defeated party in a war, especially when they started it, does not dictate terms to the victor. But the victor dictates terms to the loser. The allies were wise enough to understand that you don't leave an enemy population which hates you right in your midst, after a war, so they can continually serve as a thorn in your side and provoke you over and over again. The war is supposed to settle matters, so that the past is over, and a new beginning happens. We don't replay the conflict over and over again, as if nothing happened. It is finished. Had this allied policy been adopted in 1948 and 1967, there would be peace now. Israel would prosper, and the Arabs who lost would have made a new life for themselves somewhere else. Where, is not Israel's problem. The world is a big place, and certainly they could have been resettled somewhere, like the Germans were, and made a successful life for themselves.

Instead, Israel, the victor, is made to feel guilty for winning a war of self-defense and self-preservation, and the Arab problem is continually thrown back in their face. A little perspective, please. Thank you.
10. Yemini EU fund Pal terror and Nazi education - NOT FRIENDS
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11. The Israpal one state solution? Is this serious?
Sammy ,   Newcastle   (06.04.18)
Where both Palestinians and Israelis suddenly relinquish their national identity to become IsraPal's?

What we want is simple
A SINGLE unified, contiguous, sovereign and integrated State of Palestine alongside Israel within mutually secure borders

Is it POSSIBLE?
As far back as 1999 Palestinian academics worked out how this could be achieved. But Hamas and the PA have NEVER wanted an open debate or share these ideas..because what THEY WANT is the Greater Palestine of historical British Mandated Territory by ‘taking over’ the entirety of Israel’s and the Hashemite Kingdom’s territories and economies either by violence and terrorism, coercion, blackmail or by sheer demographic impact of any ‘Law of Return’. The result? PERPETUAL STATUS QUO..80 years on and Palestinians STILL stateless, Israel STILL threatened and the Arab World HELD BACK from achieving its TRUE and VAST POTENTIAL


12. A persuasive article
Bertram ,   London, UK.   (06.04.18)
The right wing is of course anti-Israel. Its fantasy of a ‘one-state solution’ is predicated on the necessary expulsion of Palestinians to ensure a Jewish majority. The result will be the permanent hatred of Israel not only by those who have been ethnically cleansed but also by the rest of the world. Assuredly, Israel will have shot itself in both feet, its back and its head.
13. 85% of Israeli generals disagree with you
Bernard Bohbot ,   Montreal   (06.04.18)
Commanders for Israel's security, which represents 85% of retired Israeli generals, claims that Israel can defend itself without the West Bank provided that the US army replaces the IDF in the Jordan Valley. I think they know security better than Netanyahu!
14. Thank you for speaking truth
Ed ,   USA   (06.04.18)
The Israeli right wing needs Hamas and Hezbollah in order to stay in power. And Hamas and Hezbollah need the Israeli right wing to stay in power. One depends on the other.

Only when the extremists of both populations can be bypassed and politically marginalized will we see any progress. Yes, Israel and Palestine are on a dangerous path to single state by virtue of not making any difficult decisions, and not having any serious leaders with vision and courage.
15. To iput it simply
Bertram ,   London, UK.   (06.05.18)
I see three choices for a ‘one-state’ greater Israel:
1. Full citizenship for all inhabitants
2. ‘Apartheid’ with an internally colonized Arab population
3. Ethnically-cleansing of the West Bank Palestinian population - expulsion

If there is another choice it would be helpful to know it.
16. finally, you are waking up
bravo   (06.05.18)
17. So very true. The right does not want peace
DOV ,   USA   (06.06.18)
The right has some notion that they can govern the Arabs surrounding them on both sides. Imagine governing the Palestinians. It’s crazy and suicidal. All these hardcore right-wing fanatics who contribute to this talk back have never sat guard duty. In their minds they would like to see all Arabs pushed back to Jordan on one side and Egypt the other. Two or three state solution with strong borders is the only way. If by some miracle the Arabs turn themselves around and develop themselves into a peace-loving society maybe, then we could move forward but now we need strong borders not bigger borders.
18. mr
david david ,   bkln   (06.06.18)
the harm we d is by not annexing once and for all judea and samaria and declaring to the world that its the land of israel not ishmael. the world would then come to terms with this fact and withing 2-3 years all will normalize.
19. Left betrayed us every step and blame the right everywhere
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