Two-state solution, RIP
Saree Makdisi, professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA and the author of "Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation," says the two-state solution is dead – both sides must share the land, equally:
There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Forget the endless arguments about who offered what and who spurned whom and whether the Oslo peace process died when Yasser Arafat walked away from the bargaining table or whether it was Ariel Sharon's stroll through the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem that did it in.All that matters are the facts on the ground, of which the most important is that – after four decades of intensive Jewish settlement in the Palestinian territories it occupied during the 1967 war – Israel has irreversibly cemented its grip on the land on which a Palestinian state might have been created.
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Willham
05/13/08 01:49 PM
There was never really a two-state solution. Just the thought of one is giving into the terrorist that have killed thousands of innocent Israeli men, women and children. We cannot give in to terrorism. The only way to have real peace is to attack the problem head on. When the Palestinians are ready for peace let them ask for it. We cannot afford to cave into the opinion of other countries thousands of miles away and do not have to deal with this terrorism on a daily basis. We need to hit them and hit them hard and not let up till they decide for an unconditional surrender.