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A dramatic decline in support for a two-state solution over the past 14 years was reported in a recent Gallup survey, and this was true among both Israelis and Arabs living under the Palestinian Authority. Majorities on both sides now oppose the establishment of a second Palestinian state (recall that Jordan was the first state created for the Palestinian Muslims) in the heartland of Israel.
The survey showed that 65% of Israelis oppose a two-state solution, compared with 26% who support it. Meanwhile, Palestinian Arabs oppose the proposal by 58%, while 32% continue to support it.
Moreover, the October 7 massacre and the subsequent war appear to have had little impact on these attitudes, as support for a second Palestinian state was already lacking before these events took place.
These findings represent a profound decline in support for the iniquitous two-state solution plan, which seems never to lose the support of peace processors, who are still promoting the TSS as the only path to peace, even as their blind obsession with this proposal has only led to greater bloodshed and a one-sided argument that Israel should do more to demonstrate its commitment to this ruse, while the Palestinian Arabs are excused from any such requirements. The recent 15-point roadmap, which was nothing more than a watered-down version of the 20-point plan, demonstrated that the peace processors have learned nothing about what is missing from their blind ambition to bring about peace without addressing the fundamentals which actually support war. The preference to maintain UNRWA or UNRWA-like management of the Arab population, while also conceding to Hamas demands that it need not be fully disarmed before Israel is forced to begin its withdrawal from Gaza, demonstrates how badly misguided the efforts of Kushner and others have been. Rather than proposing Israeli withdrawals in the face of existing terror threats, a policy should be instituted whereby one hectare of land (approximately 2.5 acres) would be irreversibly removed from Gaza for each day that Hamas continues to refuse to disarm. Instead, the obstinate actions of the terrorists are being rewarded with demands for further Israeli concessions of a simultaneous withdrawal, a concessions which Washington will no doubt demand be implemented once the inconvenience of both the Israeli and American elections are over.
A highly revealing finding in a separate Pew Research Center survey is that pessimism about the ability to achieve lasting peace is widespread among both groups of respondents, Israelis and Palestinian Arabs alike. What is particularly relevant in this research, however, is not that only about 20% of Palestinian Arabs and Jews believe Israel and a second Palestinian state could peacefully coexist. Rather, it is that Israeli respondents frequently cited security threats as the predominant obstacle to peace, while Arab respondents from Judea and Samaria expressed opposition to dividing the land at all. This dividing line between the differing concerns of the two groups, i.e., the Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs, is entirely ignored by the peace processors, who keep attempting to formulate peace plans around a two-state solution. As I wrote in an open letter to the late Senator Lindsey Graham, who had insisted that the only path to peace was through the two-state solution, “You are simply WRONG!” This objection to the two-state solution was valid a decade ago, was valid when I wrote these words last year, and will remain valid so long as the motivation of the Arabs remains the destruction of Israel. Unfortunately, that motivation will persist indefinitely as will the failure to produce peace by those who only see the Two State Solution as the only path to peace. Facilitated voluntary emigration is an alternate path which has thus far been ignored, but which has the potential of doing what has evaded the efforts of all the Peace Processors over the past thirty years – actually create conditions which can sustain peace.
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