By: Vic Rosenthal
Published: August 29th, 2012
German President Joachim Gauck (L) and President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas give a press conference in Ramallah, 31 May 2012. That Abbas draws on the legacy of Yassir Arafat is but one reason why many feel a Palestinian state would threaten Israel.
Photo Credit: Rimawi/Flash90
Martin Sherman sees the unpleasant truth and, unlike so many others, draws the logical conclusions. He has written a series of articles in the Jerusalem Post in which he has exposed the sheer insanity of the Left’s two-state solution (TSS), as well as the failure of the Right to propose real alternatives.
Now Sherman has taken up the challenge to provide a practical alternative. In his most recent article — which I urge you to read in its entirety, since I can’t do justice to it with a few snippets — he writes,
To survive as the permanent nation-state of the Jewish people Israel must address two fundamental imperatives:
• The geographic imperative • The demographic imperative
It is self-evident that if either of these is inadequately addressed, Israel’s status as the nation-state of the Jewish people will be gravely jeopardized, eventually becoming unsustainable.
The mainstream discourse invariably – and deceptively – presents Israel’s only choice as being between accepting the TSS – which would make Israel untenable geographically, or the OSS (one-state solution) – which would make it untenable demographically.
Neither comprises an acceptable policy-paradigm for anyone whose point of departure is the continued existence of Israel as the permanent nation-state of the Jews.
This, as we will see, compels us to the inexorable conclusion that between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea there can – and eventually will – prevail either exclusive Jewish or exclusive Arab sovereignty…
Read More:
http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/confronting-the-unpleasant-truth-about-two-states/2012/08/29/0/?print
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