Thursday, May 21, 2009

Will Palestinians ever get a state of their own?

Any rational Palestinian leader would have figured out by now what it takes to create a Palestinian state. Unfortunately the Palestinians simply can't get themselves to make the right choices and in the process they are moving the Israeli population further to the right. The absurdity of the Palestinian position is reflected nicely in Hussein Agha and Robert Malley's recent piece in the New York Review of Books where they argue that the concept of a two state solution is no longer viable because the creation of a Palestinian state has at the present time little to do with the substance of the proposed solutions to the conflict but “It has everything to do with who is promoting it, for what reason, in what way, and in what domestic and regional context. Palestinians do not judge the idea of a state on its merits. They judge it by the company it keeps.” WOW! How do we solve that one?

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