Its shocking how some people still consider Netanyahu to be a proponent of the two-state solution. I remember reading the transcript of the Bar Ilan speech; once you look past the obligatory yearning for ‘peace’, its a classic example of wanting to have your cake and eat it. Putting forward an unjust, one-sided proposal to the Palestinians knowing that they will refuse, so the Israeli government can play the victim card and proclaim that they wanted peace, it was the bloodthirsty Palestinians that refused it!
I’d be interested to know what you make of the current debate regarding the inevitability of a one-state solution in the future, considering the consistent development of settlements in the West Bank. Although as Peter Beinart puts it, whether that would be a single democratic state or a single Jewish state is yet to be seen.
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Bill Pearlman
April 8, 2012 at 3:41 am
They do love you over at Phil ( hitler should have finished the job ) Weiss’s operation.
William Burns
April 8, 2012 at 4:21 am
Oren is a pretty unconvincing propagandist. Most of his stuff is this idiotic. Makes me wonder if ghosts wrote his Six Day war book.
OTOH, he’s smarter than Pearlman.
Iranian Jewess
April 8, 2012 at 7:20 am
Its shocking how some people still consider Netanyahu to be a proponent of the two-state solution. I remember reading the transcript of the Bar Ilan speech; once you look past the obligatory yearning for ‘peace’, its a classic example of wanting to have your cake and eat it. Putting forward an unjust, one-sided proposal to the Palestinians knowing that they will refuse, so the Israeli government can play the victim card and proclaim that they wanted peace, it was the bloodthirsty Palestinians that refused it!
I’d be interested to know what you make of the current debate regarding the inevitability of a one-state solution in the future, considering the consistent development of settlements in the West Bank. Although as Peter Beinart puts it, whether that would be a single democratic state or a single Jewish state is yet to be seen.
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