Why did the Palestinians turn down the two-state solution?

[DigitalDrifter]

It was right there for the taking, but thanks to Arafat, the Palestinians suffer, and continue to suffer.

The Missed Chance for Peace​

Throughout this horrible week, my mind has repeatedly flashed back to Dec. 23, 2000. That was the day the Palestinians were offered a path to having their own nation on roughly 95 percent of the land in the West Bank and 100 percent of the land in the Gaza Strip. Under that outline, Israel would also swap some of its own land to compensate the Palestinians in exchange for maintaining 80 percent of its settler presence in the West Bank.

Opinion | The Missed Chance for Peace

It’s hard not to wonder whether today’s suffering could have been avoided if in 2000 Palestinians had taken the offer of a path toward statehood.

www.nytimes.com

 

[K9Buck]

The Palis were rejecting statehood long before Arafat as well as since Arafat.

 

[shockedcanadian]

It was right there for the taking, but thanks to Arafat, the Palestinians suffer, and continue to suffer.

The Missed Chance for Peace​

Opinion | The Missed Chance for Peace

It’s hard not to wonder whether today’s suffering could have been avoided if in 2000 Palestinians had taken the offer of a path toward statehood.

www.nytimes.com

Because Russia didn't want that for them.at the time and they assumed all of the Arab world would eventually attack Israel as one.

 

[Yarddog]

It was right there for the taking, but thanks to Arafat, the Palestinians suffer, and continue to suffer.

The Missed Chance for Peace​

Opinion | The Missed Chance for Peace

It’s hard not to wonder whether today’s suffering could have been avoided if in 2000 Palestinians had taken the offer of a path toward statehood.

www.nytimes.com

They wanted it all

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

It was right there for the taking, but thanks to Arafat, the Palestinians suffer, and continue to suffer.

The Missed Chance for Peace​

Opinion | The Missed Chance for Peace

It’s hard not to wonder whether today’s suffering could have been avoided if in 2000 Palestinians had taken the offer of a path toward statehood.

www.nytimes.com

Pressure From the Feralphiles in the U.S. State Department

No one is allowed to ask, "Why did the Israelis offer such a solution to savages they need to deport far, far away?"

 

[DigitalDrifter]

It was right there........

"A few days later, the Israeli cabinet voted to accept the plan. Yasir Arafat did what he generally did. He never said no, but he never said yes. The Saudi and Egyptian ambassadors in Washington strongly pressured him to agree to a deal, but perhaps feeling pressure from back home or sensing where Palestinian public opinion was or feeling that the provisions for the refugees were insufficient, Arafat dallied. Momentum was frittered away."

 

[K9Buck]

The actual answer is that God is in control. He is always in control.

Zechariah 12:3
On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.

 

[Godboy]

It was right there for the taking, but thanks to Arafat, the Palestinians suffer, and continue to suffer.

The Missed Chance for Peace​

Opinion | The Missed Chance for Peace

It’s hard not to wonder whether today’s suffering could have been avoided if in 2000 Palestinians had taken the offer of a path toward statehood.

www.nytimes.com

Because jews would still exist with that deal. That is a no-go for Palestinians. Its death to jews or nothing.

 

[Baron]

It was right there for the taking, but thanks to Arafat, the Palestinians suffer, and continue to suffer.

The Missed Chance for Peace​

Opinion | The Missed Chance for Peace

It’s hard not to wonder whether today’s suffering could have been avoided if in 2000 Palestinians had taken the offer of a path toward statehood.

www.nytimes.com

Because Arabs are highly corrupt and their 'leaders' bought and paid by Mossad

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Where are the board's Palestinian supporters? You'll just ignore this?

 

[Foxfyre]

It was right there for the taking, but thanks to Arafat, the Palestinians suffer, and continue to suffer.

The Missed Chance for Peace​

Opinion | The Missed Chance for Peace

It’s hard not to wonder whether today’s suffering could have been avoided if in 2000 Palestinians had taken the offer of a path toward statehood.

www.nytimes.com

They turned it down because their leaders don't give a rat's ass about the Palestinian people. They turned it down because their leaders want all the Jews and perhaps 'heretical' Palestinians living in Israel dead and gone and Israel to be no more.

That was the case then. That is the case now.

 

[skye]

They wanted it all

^^^That

....and the palestinians have always turn down the two state solution because they want a continuous and prolonged war against Israel.

In other words they don't want Peace.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

... because Arabs do not want to share the Holy Land with Jews.

 

[Sayaras]

It was right there for the taking, but thanks to Arafat, the Palestinians suffer, and continue to suffer.

The Missed Chance for Peace​

Opinion | The Missed Chance for Peace

It’s hard not to wonder whether today’s suffering could have been avoided if in 2000 Palestinians had taken the offer of a path toward statehood.

www.nytimes.com

They never missed a chance to miss a chance

 

[LeroyDumonde]

The actual answer is that God is in control. He is always in control.

Zechariah 12:3
On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.

So clown world is God's fault?

 

[Leo123]

Because in reality, genocide is a way of taking land and keeping it. Anyone left alive will always resist so they must be completely expunged. In America, the 'Indians' were almost exterminated but, they gave them their own land instead of killing all of them. Hamas wants all Jews dead so they don't have to 'put up' with the lingering hatred of the conquered. It is truly savage behavior.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Arafat scuttled the deal because he didn't want to end up assassinated.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Land mass and two-state solutions are all just bullshit arguments and excuses for Islimists to keep trying to annihilate Israel, the Mideast’s representative of western culture.

 

[K9Buck]

So clown world is God's fault?

Not exactly, but God does permit "clowns" to run the show - for a while.

 

[K9Buck]

Never-ending war and suffering is very lucrative for the filthy-rich leaders of Hamas and the PA. Peace and prosperity for the Pali people ends the grift.