It’s not just the U.S. State Department that favors the creation of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River. The UN secretary-general, the foreign ministers of the EU and Germany, and 49 Democratic senators have all recently called for a “two-state solution.” Whatever problem they think it would solve, it won’t solve the problem that has caused the deaths of thousands of Israelis and Palestinians in the past three decades. Elliott Abrams comments:
In the West, the call for a “two-state solution” is mostly a magical incantation these days. Diplomats and politicians want the Gaza war to stop. They want a way out that seems fair and just to voters and makes for good speeches. But they are not even beginning to grapple with the issues that negotiating a “two-state solution” raises, and they are not seriously asking what kind of state “Palestine” would be. Instead they simply imagine a peaceful, well-ordered place called “Palestine” and assure everyone that it is just around the corner. By doing so they avoid asking the most important question: would not an autocratic, revanchist Palestinian state be a threat to peace?
There are some words missing in all the calls for a Palestinian state—words like democracy, human rights, and liberty.
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