Charles Krauthammer: The two-state delusion.
O f all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyahu has declared that there will be no Palestinian state while he is Israel’s prime minister.
I have news for the lowing herds: There would be no peace and no Palestinian state if Isaac Herzog were prime minister, either. Or Ehud Barak or Ehud Olmert for that matter. The latter two were (non-Likud) prime ministers who offered the Palestinians their own state — with its capital in Jerusalem and every Israeli settlement in the new Palestine uprooted — only to be rudely rejected.
This is not ancient history. This is 2000, 2001 and 2008 — three astonishingly concessionary peace offers within the last 15 years. Every one rejected.
The fundamental reality remains: This generation of Palestinian leadership — from Yasser Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas — has never and will never sign its name to a final peace settlement dividing the land with a Jewish state. And without that, no Israeli government of any kind will agree to a Palestinian state.
Today, however, there is a second reason a peace agreement is impossible: the supreme instability of the entire Middle East. For half a century, it was run by dictators no one liked but with whom you could do business. For example, the 1974 Israel-Syria disengagement agreement yielded more than four decades of near-total quiet on the border because the Assad dictatorships so decreed.
Charles Krauthammer The two-state delusion - NY Daily News
Offer a Palestinian state on Israel's terms!
East Jerusalem was offered as "custodianship" and not sovereignty!
No Israeli government will sign a peace treaty with Palestinians... It's not in Jewish interest!
WRONG
They arab muslims will only ever accept the destruction of Israel and the mass murder of the Jews
Jerusalem was stolen from the Jews by the arab muslims in defiance of the UN rules, in doing so they made it free to the next group to take it.
No arab muslim will dare sign a peace treaty with Israel, it is not worth their lives.
Offer a Palestinian state on Israel's terms! FACT!
East Jerusalem was offered as "custodianship" and not sovereignty! FACT!
Nut&Yahoo has said there will never be a two state solution FACT!
So, which bit is wrong Phoney?
All of it, as you are taking it out of context.
What terms would they be then as Israel has not laid any terms on the table, the arab muslims disband the talks before this an happen
All of Jerusalem is supposed to be International, until the arab muslims invaded and stole it. They have no legal claim to Jerusalem so anything there is just a concession.
What he actually said was .......
He made explicitly clear that he could
never, ever, countenance a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank. He indicated that he sees Israel standing almost alone on the frontlines against vicious Islamic radicalism, while the rest of the as-yet free world does its best not to notice the march of extremism.
Netanyahu has stressed often in the past that he doesn’t want Israel to become a binational state — implying that he favors some kind of accommodation with and separation from the Palestinians. But on Friday he made explicit that this could not extend to full Palestinian sovereignty. Why? Because, given the march of Islamic extremism across the Middle East, he said, Israel simply cannot afford to give up control over the territory immediately to its east, including the eastern border — that is, the border between Israel and Jordan, and the West Bank and Jordan
So you see he is saying that while Islamic extremism is on the rise he can not sanction a two state solution that would put the lives of millions of Israelis at risk while the rest of the free world look on through rose tinted glasses. It is moot anyway as the P.A. have repeatedly said that they will never countenance a two state solution and peace.