It’s Time to Bury the Two-State Delusion Once and for All.

[Mindful]

It remains an article of faith among western progressives that a Palestinian state will bring about Mideast peace; and some pundits wasted little time citing the recent murders of seven Israelis as proof (and by implication mitigating the culpability of the terrorists who killed them). But the two-state paradigm is based on the false assumptions that (a) indigenous Palestinian-Arabs occupied the Jewish homeland for thousands of years before their displacement by Israel, (b) the conflict is driven by this displacement, and (c) the wider Arab world considers the Palestinian issue existential and fundamental to Arab identity. These were not assumptions informing the 1920 San Remo Accords, the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine in 1922, or the geopolitical sea change that followed the Six-Day War, but only became political orthodoxy after the ill-conceived Oslo Accords in 1993.

The conceit of Oslo was its foundation on revisionist principles that repudiated Jewish history and implicitly demanded that Israel accept the veracity of the Palestinian narrative, which essentially required her to deny her own historical antecedents and legitimacy. It also tacitly validated the theory of “linkage,” a progressive sacred cow holding that (a) Israel’s existence causes instability throughout the Mideast, and (b) peace with the wider Arab world is unachievable absent the creation of a Palestinian state. Though the Oslo fantasy was embraced by several successive administrations in Washington, coercing Israel’s existential denial could never assure conflict resolution.

It’s Time to Bury the Two-State Delusion Once and for All

by Matthew Hausman (March 2023) Untitled, Farid Belkahia, 1968 It remains an article of faith among western progressives that a Palestinian state will bring about Mideast peace; and some pundits wasted little time citing the recent murders of seven Israelis as proof (and by implication...

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[Mindful]

Then there was this dichotomy:

Then along came President Trump and the Abraham Accords, which exposed the two-state paradigm as the chimeric farce it always was. The Accords demonstrated inter alia Israel’s ability to conclude economic and normalization agreements with Arab nations without the need to accept a hostile border state that would threaten her existence.​

vs this:

The Biden administration, however, has a regressive foreign policy view with little regard for the Abraham Accords, and instead favors a two-state fantasy that rewards Palestinian extremism. And this policy is being prosecuted by wonks and diplomats who support BDS, disparage Israel, and tolerate political antisemitism. Through it all, moreover, President Biden refuses to acknowledge the antisemitism permeating the progressive wing of his party and influencing its Mideast policy, as illustrated by his silence when Democratic “Squad” members last year introduced a House of Representatives resolution to recognize “the catastrophe” of Israel’s creation.​

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[theHawk]

The PA has rejected every two state offer. Every single time.

 

[Mindful]

The PA has rejected every two state offer. Every single time.

A quote from Newsweek, at the time:

Nearly a year after he failed to achieve a deal at Camp David, former president Bill Clinton gave vent to his frustrations this week over the collapse of peace in the Mideast. And Clinton directed his ire at one man: Yasir Arafat. On Tuesday night, Clinton told guests at a party at the Manhattan apartment of former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke and his wife, writer Kati Marton, that Arafat called to bid him farewell three days before he left office. "You are a great man," Arafat said.​

"The hell I am," Clinton said, he responded. "I'm a colossal failure, and you made me one."​

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[Mindful]

Tinmore:

At it again.

 

[P F Tinmore]

The two state solution.

Solution to what? What problem were they trying to resolve?

 

[theHawk]

The two state solution.

Solution to what? What problem were they trying to resolve?

The problem of two cultures trying to coexist.

 

[Hollie]

The problem of two cultures trying to coexist.

I think that's largely true and with the problems of a modern, educated and technological culture; Israel, against the backdrop of a culture; pallys, obviously not.

From the Hamas Charter to the near daily screeching from the PA calling for the destruction of Israel to the indoctrination of children that their ultimate destiny is to die in a hail of gunfire or in a spectacular flash of explosion in a suicide bombing, the pallys have a single minded focus on gee-had.

 

[José]

Originally posted by PF Tinmore
The two state solution.

Solution to what? What problem were they trying to resolve?

The problem of the real descendants of the ancient Jews refusing to be herded into ethnic corrals by a bunch of european invaders about as jewish as Mao Tse Tung and Idi Amin Dada.