Comments on: US Middle East Policy – A Complete Disaster http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/us-middle-east-policy-%e2%80%93-a-complete-disaster/ Economics, Global Finance, Investment Strategies and Development. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Elliot D. http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/us-middle-east-policy-%e2%80%93-a-complete-disaster/comment-page-1/#comment-3447 Elliot D. Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:18:44 +0000 http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/?p=339#comment-3447 There is no solution but a two state solution and there can be no other option than “two states for two peoples”. The one state solution that has been proposed will be the death of the State of Israel and this will never happen. The only Israelis who advocate such a plan are leftist intellectuals. The majority of the population prefers that each people have their own state. There is too much hatred and too much bloodshed has been spilled to ever dream of a one state solution. Israelis want a "divorce" from the Palestinians. That is why they advocate a state for them - the pervading idea is "us here and they are there". Thus the wall (which also prevents suicide bombers from entering Israel). The one state idea appeals to the Palestinians because they would be a majority in a one state solution and that would be the end of Israel as a Jewish democratic state. Palestinians deserve their own state with their own instutions. I would be interested to hear, Susan, if you visited any other areas other than East Jerusalem; the wall and settlements. Which settlements did you visit? And did you meet any Israelis who advocate the two state solution? There is no solution but a two state solution and there can be no other option than “two states for two peoples”. The one state solution that has been proposed will be the death of the State of Israel and this will never happen. The only Israelis who advocate such a plan are leftist intellectuals. The majority of the population prefers that each people have their own state. There is too much hatred and too much bloodshed has been spilled to ever dream of a one state solution. Israelis want a “divorce” from the Palestinians. That is why they advocate a state for them – the pervading idea is “us here and they are there”. Thus the wall (which also prevents suicide bombers from entering Israel). The one state idea appeals to the Palestinians because they would be a majority in a one state solution and that would be the end of Israel as a Jewish democratic state. Palestinians deserve their own state with their own instutions.

I would be interested to hear, Susan, if you visited any other areas other than East Jerusalem; the wall and settlements. Which settlements did you visit? And did you meet any Israelis who advocate the two state solution?

]]> By: susan buck-morss http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/us-middle-east-policy-%e2%80%93-a-complete-disaster/comment-page-1/#comment-3426 susan buck-morss Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:11:59 +0000 http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/?p=339#comment-3426 Just back from Jerusalem, where critical Israelis gave me a political tour of east Jerusalem - the wall and settlements. It makes one question whether a two-state solution makes any economic, geographic, ethnic, social, or political sense. More and more (but under conditions of increasing government repression), intellectuals there (Jews, Palestinians, Israeli citizens, residents of the Palestine territories) are advocating a one-state, democratic-secular solution, with political parties appealing on the basis of moral principles, social programs, even economic self-interest, rather than the dubious notion of religious ethnicity. Just back from Jerusalem, where critical Israelis gave me a political tour of east Jerusalem – the wall and settlements. It makes one question whether a two-state solution makes any economic, geographic, ethnic, social, or political sense. More and more (but under conditions of increasing government repression), intellectuals there (Jews, Palestinians, Israeli citizens, residents of the Palestine territories) are advocating a one-state, democratic-secular solution, with political parties appealing on the basis of moral principles, social programs, even economic self-interest, rather than the dubious notion of religious ethnicity.

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