Won't apologize for using the 'M' word [View All]

[oberliner]

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We must support two-states, I said, because two-states is the only solution. One-state, as more and more Palestinians are advocating out of anger and six decades of failure, would be the Palestinians' "Final Solution." We can't afford to let the extremists hold us hostage by causing so much violence that it gives Israel more excuses to back away from compromise and make Palestinians suffer even more.

Let's face it, Hamas spent the entire 90s opposing peace and using suicide bombings not to kill Israelis as a primary goal but to kill the peace process and if they took some innocent Israeli lives with then so be it, they felt. In my mind, fighting while Palestinian leaders were negotiating with Israelis at the peace table was an unforgivable act of terrorism by Hamas.

Another Palestinian panelist on the program decided to attack me. What a shock. Like I have never been attacked by an uncompromising Palestinian before. She said the "only solution" is the "one-state solution." She said that using terms like "moderates" and "extremists" was disrespectful to "the cause of peace."

What "peace" is she talking about when you embrace the one-state final solution of the Palestinian problem? It's not a peace plan but a declaration of continued conflict. But then the lifers in the activist movement have always been willing to sacrifice the rest of our lives so they can make a point of principle at a podium in front of a large audience. I think if there ever was to be peace, the activists would be out of jobs and that must scare them more than admitting their failure to defeat Israel and having to compromise for half of Palestine.

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