2-state solution is dead - Joseph Farah - http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/2-state-solution-is-dead/
Joseph Farah reveals reality behind efforts for Israeli-Palestinian peace deal
It's official - or should be.
The much-championed, so-called two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict should never be mentioned again as even a remote possibility. The "international community," as it is known, as well as the nation of Israel, needs to declare it dead, buried, pushing up daisies.
Why?
Because it is. We just need a coroner to come and make it official. We have to get beyond denial and recognize reality.
The reality is that the very people for whom the two-state solution was dreamed up to satisfy have rejected it resoundingly as an option.
Last week, a poll commissioned by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy found a clear majority of so-called Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip rejects the idea of creating a Palestinian state in those territories.
In Judea and Samaria, 55 percent said they reject the idea in favor of exterminating all Jews from the Jordan to the Mediterranean. In Gaza, fully 68 percent took that position.
How anyone could think that creating yet another radical Islamic state in the Middle East is a solution for anything is beyond me - poll or no poll. But clearly, the solution that has been de rigueur for 25 years, is not going to make anyone happy - least of all Arab Palestinians.
The poll results are even worse than that when you scrutinize the numbers carefully. They show that less than one-third of Arab Palestinians actually support a two-state solution in which Arabs live peacefully alongside a Jewish state. Nearly two-thirds of the Arab population says "resistance should continue until all of historic Palestine is liberated."
It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
For decades, the Arab leadership, inside the territories and outside, has been fostering anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hatred and a victimization mentality in its schools, its media, its popular culture and in its own rhetoric. They indoctrinate the population, from the earliest age, to embrace jihad and martyrdom as the only acceptable path. Under the circumstance, it's amazing the level of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish terrorism and violence is not higher.
The institute's scholars got it right in their analysis of the poll: "U.S. policy should seriously consider abandoning all hope now of a permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace deal." They suggested focusing on "immediate steps to lower tensions."
Those steps should include a complete suspension of aid to the territories until all incendiary and provocative and anti-Semitic government, school and media rhetoric ceases. Since that will never happen, the U.S. and other aid could be put to much more constructive use.
These polls, by the way, are as close to free elections as anything in which Arab Palestinians get a chance to a chance to participate. So it is truly meaningful.
This has always been Israel's problem, try as it might to make peace.
How do you make peace with a neighbor who doesn't want it? How do you make peace with a neighbor who is sworn to murder you? How do you make peace with a neighbor who is sworn to killing you, your family, your community, your entire nation?
That's what Israel is up against and has been up against since it was reborn as a nation-state 66 years ago. Things aren't getting better. They are getting worse.
So why not try something new?
There's an old saying, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results."
It doesn't work. It's not rational. It's not scientific. It's no sensible.
Has anyone noticed in the U.S. State Department? Not a chance.
Because the U.S. State Department has never been accused of being pragmatic, rational, scientific or sensible.
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