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05/05/09 12:36 PM

I just comented on the Biden/Kerry statement that there must be a two state solution. I said it was not possible because Israel will never allow restricted air space, or a military state within its borders.

So as the above article stated it is just not feasible.

And besides all this the Arab states so not want a solution to this problem. They like it just as it is.

05/05/09 01:02 PM

Whether or not it meant to do so Israel has caused a major and deadly problem in the Middle East just by locating there some 61 years ago. Now it wants to make the problem it caused go away by foisting it on someone else. There is no reason in the world that Jordan or Egypt should take on this difficult and onerous burden. Help with it? Yes, but accept it as their own problem? No.

05/05/09 02:42 PM

a treaty where israel and palestine gain land? why limit it to jordan and egypt ?

05/05/09 04:01 PM

Archie1954,

Do you really think that the Jews just happened to pick on this particular piece of land 61 years ago for their state?  There must be a good reason for this particular spot, and it is:  The Jews were there first.  There was a Jewish commonwealth, as described from Abraham to the destruction of the Second Temple.  The Jews never ceded their claim to the land, although they were expelled from it.  The Palestinians aren’t the natives here; many Arabs settled in the area only after the Jews began to settle there and improve it.  (For example, Mark Twain’s writings describe how empty the land was, which would not have been the case had the Arabs actually possessed the land and cared for it.) Like it or not, this is the Jewish homeland.  Maybe the Arabs should do something in order to advance the cause of peace.

05/05/09 04:08 PM

In regard to Jordan taking responsibility for the Palestinians on the West Bank and Egypt for those in Gaza:  Has it occurred to anyone that the separation of 75% or so of the original Palestinian mandate (i.e., the current country of Jordan) is the Arab Palestinian state?  If Jordan is indeed not open to Jews to live, then it follows that the remainder of the Palestinian mandate should be the Jewish state (i.e., Israel including the West Bank).  Since Jordan is majority Palestinian, maybe recognizing this is the key to settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--there is an Arab Palestinian and a Jewish Palestinian state--two states for two peoples.  Let the Palestinians choose between their Arab state and Israel (recognizing that they would be a minority in the latter, although their rights would still be more than in any Arab country).  The borders would be much more secure than the pre-1967 borders everyone is forcing Israel to go back to, and the Palestinians could manage their affairs and the Jews in Israel could manage theirs, and we could move on to other things.

Unfortunately, this is too obvious.  The parties involved (mainly the Arabs and the world community) won’t want to see this and we will continue to spin our wheels.