RE: Palestinian Talks, lectures, & interviews.
SUBTOPIC: Absent an Alternative Solutions
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,
BLUF: Well, I'm not sure who you are implying as being mentally deficient; but, this statement here is both ambiguous and expansive in time → to a degree → three generations beyond the UN Recommendations for the implementation of a Two-State Solution and the establishment of an International City State. In fact, you could not adequately describe the political atmosphere of a single generation in the three sentences you offer here as being remotely of any intellectual value.
◈ Who offered, with any credible authority, a Single-State Solution to Israel?
◈ Again, the Mandate Period being between 1922 - 1948, who made an offer to Israel (which only came into existence in 1948) what Single-State Solution?
◈ And again, after the Six-Day War, WHO made an offer of a Single-State Solution?
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It is a very strange notion, altogether, that there are only two possibilities that remain:
◈ Single-State Solution
◈ Apartheid (astonishing!)
Who in the hell would not recognize this as a dilemma of a false premise → as of a false dichotomy → as a fallacy. There have to be more than two possibilities; even, if it is the status quo of a regional conflict. Theoretically, there must be the additional possibility of a Thee-State Solution.
It is important that the Quartet (United Nations, United States, European Union, and Russia Federation) or its successor, be able to think beyond this two-premise limitation.
AND → it is extremely important that the Quartet be able to advance beyond the nonsense of "apartheid" - that being a Red Mediterranean Sunfish (I would say Red Herring, but the most common fish in the Region is the Sunfish)(a little humor there).
As you all know (you don't have to be a "Rocket Scientist" to recognize that citizenship in Israel is many times more diverse than that of the territories under discussion. I think even those scholars at the White House could figure that out. The Arab Palestinian claim of "Apartheid" is merely an attempt to apply a despicable label to the Israelis. But, intellectually, it has no real value. It sticks only because the users do not know the definition of the claim. It has nothing to do with the truth. There is no single racial group on the Israeli side of the sovereign boundary trying to oppress a racial group on the Palestinian side of the boundary. And being Israeli is NOT a racial group.
Most Respectfully,
R