The Palestinians have decided that the 2 State solution is dead or ought to be euthenased ASAP.

Submitted by alan (United Kingdom), Jan 4, 2008 at 17:58

They are trying to convince the world opinion that the problem is a racial one not an" occupation" problem! .Why?

If Israel merely withdraws to the approximate borders prevailing in 1967,the Jewish majority into future years will be virtually impossible to be overtaken with 75% Jews and 25% Arabs& others at the present time .

If ,on the other hand,a bi-national state can be created from the Jordan to the Med, then the natural increase in the Arab population will ,within a very few years overtake the Jewish population. As in the case of South Africa,one man one vote democratic elections will, of course, follow in due course and voila ,problem solved.

Their South African ANC comrades from mutual Libyan Terror Camp days, have been holding Seminars near Cape Town in recent years for the Palestinians-attended by top SA political tacticians (Was it not in the Mayfair ,Johannesburg Mosque that Arafat famously stated that the fate of the Treaty the Prophet concluded with the Hudabiya Tribe awaited Israel.).

The ANC cadres proposed to their guests that that the case to be made out should be - Israel has carved the West Bank into a myriad of non viable cantons or Bantustans.The Arab population of the West Bank are equivalent to the South African Black people under the Apartheid regime of Verwoerd or Vorster.And the Jews are the equivalent of the Afrikaner Oppressors.Therefore the South African solution was the appropriate one ...Archbishop Tutu sagely concurred.

I believe this is why the Gaza withdrawal was not followed by peace on that front . Also, had the early Olmert Administration withdrawn from the West Bank there would never have been peace on that front either (After the Gaza experience ,would any Israel government dream of withdrawal from the West Bank). Always some or other "splinter" group or Murder Inc subcontractor would keep the West Bank as a boiling cauldron. Should Israel withdraw from the West Bank anytime in the future there will be no respite ..

In short "occupation,occupation" is no longer the slogan du jour . Now it is "apartheid wall, apartheid state ,bantustan,Jewish racists etc".A restitution of rights are called for,not a withdrawal!It is the BINATIONAL "non apartheid" democratic state ,that comes into being,which will create the demographic solution which the Arabs desire. Also it is the explanation of why Arabs now living under Israel do not want to be under a Palestinian Regime (for the moment,at least).

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