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Israelis Are Not Talking about Two States

(Jewish Chronicle-UK) David Rose - Daniel Meron, the deputy director of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told a delegation in Jerusalem of British peers and MPs plus journalists that "Israelis don't want to hear about the two-state solution and peace. For now, this is too sensitive. We are feeling too raw. This doesn't mean the issue won't come back in a year or two. But for now we are aching, and of course, we are still at war." In Israel, there were no doughtier champions of a negotiated, two-state peace than many of the victims raped and butchered in the kibbutzim around Gaza where the terrorists did their worst. Some of them took Palestinians from the Erez border crossing to medical appointments at Israeli hospitals, and then ferried them back. The kibbutz residents tried their utmost to promote a sense of a shared Israeli-Palestinian community. Yet it now seems clear that some of those they tried to help repaid them in the worst way imaginable. Former Blue and White Knesset member Ruth Wasserman-Lande spent years trying to build good relationships and inter-communal organizations with Palestinians. In every sense she was a moderate, committed to the cause of peace. She told us the conflict ultimately stemmed from an evil, jihadist impulse: "We are first but if we lose, the rest of the world will be next. This is a world-domination endeavor, the good guys versus the bad guys....What kind of freedom fighters are we talking about? They don't want land, they want a caliphate."
2024-01-15 00:00:00
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