DISQUS

THR · 6 months ago

Supporters of Israel don't like it, but the Apartheid analogy is a reasonably good fit for the way the Palestinians are treated. Given the ongoing expansion of settlements, and the lack of contiguity between Palestinian territories, they indeed appear to be bantustans, which raises the strong possibility that Palestinian statehood would simply maintain the status quo under a different name.

SB · 6 months ago

Toaf, I would not expect either side to put their final bid on the table before they even begin to negotiate. Also, the reason there has not been any negotiated settlement to this dispute is that the Palestinians have always preferred the path of violence, from the time they rejected a (much larger) state in 1948, to the failure of the Oslo process, when Israel began the 'land for peace' process, but Arafat chose the path of terror instead. Until the Palestinians can live with a Jewish state next door there will be no Palestinian state.