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Thursday, April 25, 2019 

Trump should abandon the 2-state "solution"

Shmuley Boteach's written about why the POTUS should let go of all the two-state embarrassment:
For just about as long as there have been efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calls for a two-state solution have choked the global conversation. Many have come to believe that there’s no other way to achieve peace.

Suddenly, though, it seems those aren’t the only voices in the room.

First, Israelis heard Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vow days before a general election that Israel would be extending its sovereignty over all of Area C, which constitutes the bulk of Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), and which would serve to hold those lands firmly under Israeli security control.

More surprising than Netanyahu’s remarks was the fact that the United States didn’t condemn them. While prior administrations made the two-state solution a staple of their Middle East policies, President Donald Trump, elected as a businessman to find new solutions to age-old problems, seems to have a different vision.

Asked whether Netanyahu’s pledge to annex Area C would interfere with the administration’s peace plan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded with a simple “I don’t.”

Other administration officials have also chimed in with their own suggestions that America’s strategy in achieving regional peace is about to get a facelift. Addressing the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman urged Israelis to seize the chance to sign a deal under this administration, and not one that “may not understand the need for Israel to maintain overriding security control over Judea and Samaria and a permanent defense-position in the Jordan Valley.”

Then, just this past week, Trump’s Chief Middle-East negotiator, my friend Jason Greenblatt, noted that it was “unhelpful” to use the term “two-state solution” in peace-talks, since both sides understood the term so differently.

It may have been Pompeo himself who gave the greatest indicator when he told CNN that Trump’s peace plan would “put forward a vision that has ideas that are new, that are different, that are unique, that tries to reframe and reshape what’s been an intractable problem.”

The truth is it isn’t hard to understand why the Trump administration might depart from the traditional notion of peace-by-two-states; it’s simply a non-solution. They’re trying to achieve peace; yet, every step taken in the direction of a two-states has brought bloodshed and conflict, terror and war.

That last fact is also simply understood.
And it should've been long ago. It's very thankful Trump's one of the most understanding presidents by far, and isn't succumbing to what prior administrations did. To avoid such grave errors helps the US as much as it does Israel.

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Evil Logic Explained
(why many people like the "Two State Solution"):


http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/guest-post-evil-logic-explained.html

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Hypocrisy of the Anti-Israel BDS Movement:

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/guest-postanti-israel-hypocrisy.html

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Ancient Roman historians identified JEWS as the inhabitants
of Land of Israel, and located the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem
:


http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/05/guest-post-cornelius-tacticus.html

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/02/guest-post-josephus-vs-muslim-liars.html

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Who are the Palestinians?

www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/14/the-invention-of-palestinians/

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/06/who-are-palestinians.html

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