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NOBLE EFFORTS MUST YIELD TWO STATES

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The surprising announcement of President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize received immediate headlines in Israel, with the right wing fearing that he will redouble his efforts to force a two state solution. Let's hope that is true. Arafat didn't deserve his award, we can see that in retrospect. And, it's not clear that Shimon Peres deserved his either. So maybe this prospective notion isn't such a bad idea.

As events in Jerusalem have shown these last few weeks, a stasis--the goal of Israeli PM Netanyahu--is simply unexceptable. President Obama needs to make certain that he uses his prestige to make clear to Americans and to the people of Israel that a two state solution is in their interest and of the utmost necessity.
The PA leadership can't sustain the economic growth and quiet that they have achieved on the West Bank without a clear political horizon.
Hamas, which has signficantly weakened in Gaza, will strengthen if this stalemate continues.
And Israel continues to lose global prestige precisely at a time when it could be soaring in the arts, high tech, science and creativity.
Rumors at the beginning of the Nobel season were that Amos Oz, the wordly Israeli novelist and indefatigable peace campaigner, was slated to win for ltierature, instead though, the award went to an obscure Romanian writer. Israelis felt a bit let down, even though one of the awards for Chemistry went to an Israeli scientist. But if a year from now real progress is made on the Israel-Palestine conunundrum, the prize will have served Israelis well.


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"Arafat didn't deserve his award, we can see that in retrospect. And, it's not clear that Shimon Peres deserved his either."

It's very clear that the father of the Zionist Atomic Bomb and The Settlements absolutely did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Israelis felt a bit let down,
Such a let down, Just one Nobel for Israel.
Obama needs to make certain that he uses his prestige to make clear to Americans and to the people of Israel that a two state solution is in their interest
Obama doesn't need to use his prestige to make clear to Americans and to the people of Israel that a two state solution is in their interest. The people of Israel know that. However Arabs don't want to a two state solution. Their non-negotiable demand is the right to unlimited Arab immigration to Israel, i.e. so called the right of return.
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"Today we emphasise that the right of return is as holy as Jerusalem. It is inalienable, non- negotiable, and sacred," Bishop Atallah said In a 3 day convention in California
http://current.com/items/88979760_palestinian-bishop-right-of-return-is-non-negotiable.htm
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'Two-states' is for the segregationists.

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Exactly, The segregation between Us and Mexico must end.

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I's agree with you, if the US and Mexico were on the same piece of land.

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They are. They are not separated by water.

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Once Israelis, Palestinians and others wholly consumed by the Middle East realize that the world does not revolve around a one-state / two-state / no-state strategy, we’ll be in much better shape to move on to really important issues.

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A very well documented article. I'm glad to read such articles about American life and what happens in the Middle East. There are many problems there but i belive that time will resolve them in favor of one or other. Thanks for the post ! anunturi gratuite

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