Monthly Archives: January 2011
The Two State Delusion IX: Why Speak Peace When Peace Is Not In...
Since 1937, when Great Britain’s Peel Commission vainly proposed a “Two-State Solution” as “a chance for ultimate peace”, Arab-Israel “peace plans” have been advanced in predictably futile succession, among them:
The U.N.’s “Partition Plan...
The Two-State Delusion VIII: The New Middle East Paradigm:Wavering U.S. Resolve?
President Obama’s publicly stated opposition to a united Jerusalem logically concentrates attention on other positions and actions he has taken that ominously diminish the U.S.-Israel relationship: His eloquent Cairo apology to and effusive praise...
The Two State Delusion VII: Changing Arab Perspectives:Iran
The Obama administration argues the extreme urgency of achieving the “Two-State Solution” as necessary to gain support from the Arab states in our conflict with the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Certainly we want any...
The Two State Delusion VI: Jerusalem: Forgotten History and a U.S. Policy Charade
Three Thousand years ago, King David made Jerusalem his capital and Jews have aspired to live in Jerusalem ever since. Since the 1840’s, Jews have comprised the largest single group of Jerusalem’s inhabitants. Moreover,...
The Two State Delusion V: Critical Realities:Fatah and Hamas
Quite apart from the intrinsically contradictory fundamental approach that would beset any Arab-Israel negotiations for a “Two-State Solution”, there is another basic problem. The Arabs are divided in two hostile camps. Fatah (P.L.O.) controls...
The Two State Delusion IV: Oslo’s Bloody Aftermath
In 1993, the Oslo Accords were signed by Arafat of the P.L.O. and Prime Minister Rabin of Israel at the White House, supposedly to allow for the development and growth of mutual trust and...
The Two-State Delusion III :The “Strategy of Stages” and a Concocted Arab Narrative
After 1948, when five Arab armies were defeated in their avowed “War of Extermination” against the greatly outnumbered nascent Jewish State, Jordan illegally occupied Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, and Egypt controlled Gaza....
The Two State Delusion II: What Right Do The Jews Have To A Sovereign...
Relevant History in Brief
In 1922, following the Allied victory in World War I, the organized international community of the time, the League of Nations, with the special concurrence of the U.S. (not a member),...
The “Two-State Delusion” I: Who Wants a “Two-State Solution”?
Following the U.S. lead, the near universal consensus appears to be that the Arab-Israel conflict can be resolved only by the establishment of a Palestinian State in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and...
Next Flashpoint in Mideast Could Be Gas Fields Off Mediterranean Coast: Dispute With Lebanon...
UNITED NATIONS - The next flashpoint in the Middle East could be the gas fields off Israel's Mediterranean coast, where the discovery of large cashes of natural gas is raising homes that Israel could...