By Ted Belman
About 10 years ago Martin Sherman articulated the humanitarian solution as opposed to the political solution as the best way to solve the conflict. He reasoned that resettling the Palestinians elsewhere where they would enjoy full rights and citizenship would end the conflict.
Since then he has refined his ideas and presents them under the title Rethinking Palestine: The Humanitarian Approach
Please take the time to read it carefully.
The Muslim world is different from the rest of the world. “Humanitarian” is meaningless when what matters is the land and not the souls! They aspire to death and not to life.
If they are out of Judea and Samaria, what does it matter? Pay them to leave like Martin Sherman said.
The Arabs have to be bribed to be on good terms with Israel. The day they stop being bribed, their interest in that is over.
How is real peace going to ever be built between the Jews and the Arabs when only one side has any real interest in peace?
As Khaled Abu Toameh just wrote – PA dictator Abu Bluff has been waging a charm offensive to get the Israeli Jewish public to support the two state solution when he has done nothing to build Palestinian Arab popular support for peace with Israel.
Without grassroots Palestinian Arab support for peace with Israel, peace will remain impossible.
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Overlooked by most advocates and critics of 2 states solution is:
Is a Palestinian State Today Economically Viable?
The theory of Palestinian centrality is no longer viable. According to the theory, the main Arab/Muslim/Middle Eastern claim against the United States and the reason for violence in the region is the lack of justice for the Palestinians. If a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinian Authority can be reached and a Palestinian state established all of the hatred will melt away and the region will be at peace.
Barry Rubin noted: “Remember the old argument that the Arab-Israel or Israel-Palestinian conflict was the centerpiece of the region; all the Arabs cared about, and what they judged the West by? Now there are a dozen other issues more important to the extent that this cannot even be hidden by the Western mass media and “experts.””
In view to what is taking place in the ME and beyond: Who still holds to that theory??? If they still do, Why???
Obama and the State Department have other reasons to pressure Israel: appeasing the Arabs/radical Muslims and their personal belief that the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine was an injustice.