Comments on: US ambassador: Two-state solution needed to ensure Israel remains a Jewish and democratic country https://www.jwire.com.au/us-ambassador-two-state-solution-needed-to-ensure-israel-remains-a-jewish-and-democratic-country/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Liat Kirby https://www.jwire.com.au/us-ambassador-two-state-solution-needed-to-ensure-israel-remains-a-jewish-and-democratic-country/#comment-622595 Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:42:55 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=140542#comment-622595 US support for Israel is ‘an unbreakable tie’ only for as long as it suits the US.
The belief in a two state solution again and again brought up by other nations, and now reiterated by Biden and Ambassador Nides, can only fall on deaf ears when in reality there is no one with whom Israel can negotiate such a solution. Ambassador Nides should be focussed on how to overcome the unwillingness of the Palestinian leaders to consider such an outcome, instead pushing, pushing as they do for their own independent state by the backdoor (i.e. through the UN), instead of having to discuss with Israel the security issues and other matters necessarily involved in such a situation.

]]> By: Clayton Miller https://www.jwire.com.au/us-ambassador-two-state-solution-needed-to-ensure-israel-remains-a-jewish-and-democratic-country/#comment-622588 Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:51:24 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=140542#comment-622588 There is more than one reason for the failure of the Oslo Accords, but at the basis lies a fundamental difference in how the conflict is viewed.

To American ears, the meaning of “two states” is unambiguously straightforward. The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians, to them, is a struggle between two indigenous peoples fighting over the same space of land in which they share a history. A fair solution, then, would be one in which Israel is the state of the Jewish people, and alongside it will exist a separate Palestinian State.

Nevertheless, according to the Palestinians’ view, this is not a conflict between two national movements but a conflict between one national movement (the Palestinian) and a colonial and imperialistic entity (Israel). According to this view, Israel will end like all colonial phenomena — it will perish and disappear. Moreover, according to the Palestinian view, the Jews are not a nation but a religious community, and as such not entitled to national self-determination which is, after all, a universal imperative.

Consequently, the Palestinians’ idea of a fair “two state solution” is one completely Arab state in the West Bank and one democratic binational State of Israel that allows the right of return for descendants of Palestinian refugees. It is a “two state solution,” but not the one Americans would recognize or Israel could survive.

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