Showing posts with label two-state solution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label two-state solution. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Norwegian foreign minister says world won't bankroll 'Palestinian state building' forever



Does the 'international community' seriously believe that the morning after - God forbid - there is a 'Palestinian state,' that 'state' will be economically viable? It sure sounds like it from this interview with Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, who currently chairs the 'Palestinian donor conference.'

Both the Palestinians and Israel should know that the world will not bankroll

Monday, August 26, 2013

Two states for two peoples... on two sides of the Jordan



At a conference on Sunday about a two-state solution on the two banks of the Jordan River (Jews to the West, Arabs to the East), the results of a poll were released that indicated that 19% of Israeli Jews support the idea of Jordan being the 'Palestinian state.' But most Israeli Jews don't expect it to happen, and they support... the status quo.

Some 19 percent of Jewish Israelis prefer to

And you didn't think anyone was that blind anymore



On Sunday, Prime Minister Netanyahu found himself in the awkward position of having to explain to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius that Israel's conflict with the 'Palestinians' is not the central conflict of the Middle East.

The root of the area’s instability, Netanyahu said in a public
statement made alongside Fabius before the two met in Jerusalem, is the regional
rejection of

Sunday, August 25, 2013

And again: Israeli government minister declares 'two-state solution' dead



For the second time in three months, an Israeli government minister has officially declared the 'two-state solution' dead.

A two-state solution is an unrealistic resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel said on Sunday evening as
he helped dedicate two new neighborhoods of 160 homes in the West Bank
settlement of Kedumim.

“Those who are

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Bennett: 'The truth is that the idea of a Palestinian state... is dead. The idea... has been proven as a killing machine'



This ought to endear Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett to Tzipi Livni and to the Obama administration. He says that the idea of a 'Palestinian state' is dead, and that it has been proven to be a killing machine.

“I’m aware that the Israeli government is conducting
negotiations with Abu Mazen,” Bennett wrote about Palestinian Authority chairman
Mahmoud Abbas.

“I do not believe

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

When the 'peace talks' inevitably fail, who will be blamed



Like most of the legacy media, the Washington Post is already preparing to blame the 'settlements' for the inevitable failure of the current 'peace talks' between Israel and the 'Palestinians.'

In the past five years, the population of Jewish settlements in the
West Bank has grown by about 20 percent, and pro-settler politicians
have become major players in Israel’s government.

Here in the