It's as if Israel is the proper country and everyone else is an interloper infringing on Israel's rights.That bodes well for negotiation doesn't it. All sides need to recognize that there are no 'rights', only negotiation.
When people say that Israel is illegitimate, that Israel shouldn't exist, then, yeah, for some reason Israelis and those who sympathize with them think that this is a non-starter for negotiations.
The truth is virtually no country that was carved out of the former Ottoman Empire was created by a plebesite of the inhabitants. And there were certainly no elections that decided who was going to rule in the country. Well, Lebanon may have been an exception to that, I'm not sure. They certainly set up a delicate political balance there, the problem being that they didn't set up a mechanism to adjust the balance for changing demographics. But nevermind that--no party wanted a one state solution back in '48. They all got that this would be impossible. One party agreed to compromise, the other party said, no, we want everything. They lost the war.
Israel could accept a single state solution as well but it doesn't want to because it wants to remain jewish.
Like, duh. And Palestinians could accept a two state solution, but they don't want to because they want to everything to be theirs. Gee, those comments are really helpful. |
