Rice Praises Negotiations
Not Lebanon or gaza, but a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria.
Israel’s worst security threat comes not from Lebanon or Gaza, but from a potential Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria: “Israel is plagued from the north by a terror machine in Lebanon, and from the south by a second terror machine in Gaza. However, Israel’s north and south border regions are populated by fewer than 200,000 Israelis. By far, the worst terror threat, therefore, is the potential third terror machine, in Judea and Samaria, just opposite the homes of millions of Israelis. In order to understand the M-E : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-really-happened-in-middle-east_12.html
Let’s be realistic.
The PA’s position is that it does not and will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and that roughly 5 million refugee descendants have a ‘right of return’ to Israel. What they are offering is to create a Palestinian state in the West Bank, and a temporarily binational state in what used to be Israel proper, which will soon dissolve into civil war. Of course, as long as Palestinians insist on Right of Return for Palestinian refugees, there isn’t going to be any two state solution. But even assuming that the Palestinians will offer acceptable terms, the two-state solution is not going to work. The reason at :
http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/07/check-your-knowledge-about-islam-and.html