1. Rafi said:

The trouble with any solution is that a high percentage of the areas Arabs (so called Palestinians) view all of these ideas (two state or mutual one state) as a trojan horse until Israel is eliminated and the Arabs take over in a one state ruled by Arabs with the Jews in the sea, dead or back in the Diaspora.

Everything else is wishful thinking of how do we get out of this mess. The Palestinians think they can win based on Lebanon withdrawl, Gaza withdrawl which both were both signs of weakness

2. BobW said:

I endorse Rafi's above comment.

Kol tuv,
BobW

3. Bill Narvey said:

Dr. Wise's one state plan is premised on his initial statement "the One State Plan ensures that Israel remains a democratic Jewish State".

In terms of Palestinian citizenship, there would be a phased in 15 year plan. Though I anticipate all Palestinians within Israel would be immediately given many, if not all practical equal rights, until full citizenship is given, there would be at least a perception in the Palestinian mind of being a second class citizen.

There are a number of very fundamental flaws in the one state solution balloon now being floated.

Some of those flaws are based on wishful thinking that current cultural Jew hatred related realities and Palestinian aspirations, bound up in the destruction of Israel can and will change. Much however has been written by pessimists in that regard that tend to dash the hopes of a most committed optimist.

The one state solution is conceived in optimism, but that optimism is far more hope, than reality based.

Another flaw is thinking that Palestinians will ever accept living in a state that will forever be a Jewish state with majority power forever in the hands of Jews, even should Muslims become the majority within Israel.

It would be perceived by Palestinians and indeed all Arabs that pull so many Palestinian strings, that they as a Palestinian Muslim people would be condemned to live in an eternal state of dhimmitude, which for Muslims is a lesser state of being reserved for those non-Muslims under the thumb of Islam. Palestinians would find this to be eternally humiliating subjugation under the Jews.

While a goal of two independent states living side by side in peace is more rooted in reality, that goal too crashes head on with a number of the same realities that make a one state solution an unattainable dream.

The U.S. with European support is pushing Israel to concede more and more. Israel is already dangerously close to having conceded more than it can afford to concede and still have a reasonable chance to survive.

At some point, I expect Israel will recognize it just has no more to give and the situation will have become one of the immovable force meeting the immovable object. In such scenarios, something inevitably has to give.

As Israel concedes more and more, the Arab world sees Israel becoming weaker and weaker.

It is very conceivable that at the point when Israel finally refuses to give any more, the Arabs and Palestinians may have by then become emboldened enough to believe Israel is weak enough that a fifth Arab genocidal war against Israel has an excellent chance of success.

4. Jesse Jacksoff said:

I agree with the above comments. This "one-state solution" is no solution at all. It would be workable only if there were assurances that the arabs will accept their role as a peaceful minority in a Jewish country. That will not happen. You can rest assured that the arabs will do their utmost to undermine Israel as a Jewish state. Given Israeli citizenship, they will begin a campaign to depict Israel as an apartheid, racist state, and most of the world side with the arabs and their bogus claims. The outside pressure on Israel will be of unimaginable proportions, much worse than it is today. The arabs are perfectly aware of that, and they will stop at nothing until they achieve full political power and be able to end Israel from within.

P.S. Gershon Basket-Case, PhD is a leftist fool, a self-hating Jew and a terrorist appeaser. Just read his other nauseating "writings".

5. Bill Levinson said:

"Another flaw is thinking that Palestinians will ever accept living in a state that will forever be a Jewish state with majority power forever in the hands of Jews, even should Muslims become the majority within Israel." If they find they cannot live with it, they are (1) free to leave or (2) free to die when they lift a hand against Israel. To hell with them.

6. Jesse Jacksoff said:

Bill you say:
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1. They won't leave
2. Israel won't kill them

To think in those terms is like wishing for cancer to go away. We have to admit, there are no easy solutions, and Israeli policies aren't helping. The resolution will come when the jihadi savages piss off enough infidels elsewhere, and the whole non-islamic world turns against them. Until then Israel won't be allowed to lift a finger in its defense. If Hitler was only targeting the Jews, there would be no Jews left today. No one would care. But, when Hitler threatened everyone else, he was defeated and destroyed. The same will happen to islamofascist disease (and you can bet on that). To think of this "conflict" as only Israeli-"palestinian" problem is a huge mistake, and looking for solutions based on that assumption will lead nowhere.

7. georg von mecklenburg said:

I am not convinced that the Israelis themselves want to live in Israel any more. Recently there was the forced evacuation from Gaza. Nothing in return was given to the Israelis that amounted to anything... yet what happened on the Israeli Street... Absolutely nothing. No riots, no bloodshed, no nothing, except for the few right wing groups, and even their level of support was waning.

The Likud went along with this nonsense and soon they will disappear as being irrelevant. I am not convinced that Israelis still want to live in Israel. Concession after concession and Israelis just sit by idely. I guess they are waiting for the next shoe to drop.

The Arabs have time on their side. If they do nothing more, they will have won the battle. Israel has been defeated and soon it will disappear as a Jewish State.