Sunday, April 22, 2007

"Israel will never agree to a two state solution"

I hear this position taken by many people on the left. However, let's never mind that it was the Arabs, and not Israel, who rejected the 1947 partition plan that would have established such a state. Or that the Arabs rejected Israel's offer made shortly after the 1967 war to withdraw from all land taken in that war except East Jerusalem (which Jordan had illegally occupied since 1948, and had illegally barred all entry to Jews and deliberately desecrated Jewish holy sites, many of which were millennia old) in return for peace and recognition. Or that it was the PA who rejected Israel's offer at Camp David for a state in 98% of the territory that the PA claimed to want, with portions of pre-1967 Israel tossed in to make up the difference.

Yes, let's forget that and believe Israel doesn't want peace and the Arabs do.

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