As a former legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team, I spent more than six years working toward a “two-state’’ solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During that period, we held countless negotiation sessions, examined scores of proposals, met with hundreds of diplomats and even went house-to-house campaigning for the two-state solution. Today, we are no closer to achieving a two-state solution than we were 20 years ago when negotiations started.Instead, we might look to a model focusing on equal rights for all individuals in the land irrespective of religion; a model which seeks reconciliation rather than separation and protects minorities rather than discriminates against them. The student-led one-state conference at Harvard this weekend aims to explore this model
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What's truly vexing is how can anyone think a two-state solution is feasable. It's fairly simple why it's out of reach. And that's for one simlpe reason -- the offical position on Israel from Palestinian leadership -- they do not accept Israel's right to exist. Could they make their feelings any clearer? No. And as a result they only have themselves to blame for their self immolation and lack of statehood. And all the meetings, conferences and negotiations won't change what is in their hearts -- hatred for a Jewish people that has endured endless persecution and will no longer ever again tolerate it.
This pack of deceptions does not even deserve a reply but let me simply say that there is abundant evidence that Muslim Arabs cannot even tolerate Christian Arabs, let alone Jews. Look at the exodus of Christians from Lebanon, Iraq and now Egypt. Why should Israeli Jews trust Fatah and Hamas to accept equal rights for Jews in a unitary Palestine? Preposterous!!
"This pack of deceptions does not even deserve a reply but let me simply say that there is abundant evidence that Muslim Arabs cannot even tolerate Christian Arabs, let alone Jews." Ozark Let's assume that Ozark lives in a metropolitan area like Boston and not in the Ozarks or on the moon. I do research in the West Bank and live with a very prominent Christian Palestinian family in Ramallah. They would no more recognize Ozark's description of their relationship with Palestinian Muslims than they would little green men with horns. At any rate, thank you for publishing this op ed. I will be sharing it with my university students.
What kind of "research" do you do in the West Bank? Your past postings defending the Iranian nuclear program cast doubt on your analytical skills.