"...For the biggest existential threat to Israel is not Iran or Hamas – it is the prospect that Jews will eventually be outnumbered by Arabs in the combined territory of Israel and Palestine. The long-term existential choice is between three alternatives: two states; one state without a Jewish majority; or an undemocratic state, with Israel as a permanent occupying power over a voteless, violent and anarchic Palestine.
Israel’s election campaign suggests the country is not yet ready to face up to that choice. So it may need the Obama administration to frame the choice for it..."
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Only Obama offers change for Israel
In the FT, here, via WiC
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Or, try this on for size:
Maybe the Palestinians aren't ready, which is why they DEMOCRATICALLY elected Hamas, whose platform is the annihilation of Israel?
That'll make you think... (at least it should)
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