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breh look at the facts on the ground
The Palestinians don't control the West Bank outside a few cities. There's nearly half a million settlers who are radicalized and protected by the IDF.
The Israelis aren't going to let the Palestinians control their own land militarily.
Fatah has been trying to surrender for years now, Israel always making excuses because in the end they still have to limit settlements and to give some limited rights to the Palestinians.
The Palestinians are by and large disillusioned politically. The West Bank is basically all settlements with no real Palestinian foothold. ANy peace treaty won't answer the questions of Palestinian refugees and kicking the settlers out. The two state solution is dead. Israel subsidizes settler expansion.
I doubt they will ever get to an agreement where they kick those people out as they did in Sinai in the 1980s and Gaza in 2005.
But one state is Israel's worst nightmare because they would effectively have a South Africa scenario where they would implement 'seperate but equal' policies where Palestinians are not full citizens and remain in cities and ghettos that pale in comparison to the living conditions in Israel...
Ehud Olmert has come out and said they face a South Africa situation without a 2 state solution.
And Netyanhu is not even pretending to support a two state solution anymore now. Israeli politics has shifted even more right wing and more extreme.
This whole thing isn't sustainable.
Infact the entire "peace process" was an attempt for Arafat and the elite in the PLO to lie to their people and give up the dream of a real and independent viable state... all they wanted out of the process was some concessions from the Israelis to make it look convincing to the Palestinian people.
A success culmination of what started in Madrid and what both Rabin and Arafat wanted would have created a fake Palestinian state, one essentially still an Israeli colonial possession but they would have made it look really good and fool the people, the Gulf States and Egypt were 100% behind it, only the nationalist factions in the PLO and Hamas would have been against it, but part of the deal would have been a police state like other Arab countries and they would have been suppressed in cooperation with Shin Bet.
All this derailed when Rabin died and Likud killed the process with foot dragging, Hamas suicide bombings and rockets helped as well,
but in essence the plan failed because the Israelis believed that they could have their cake and eat it, and they have...
I fully agree that a one state solution will never work. It would defeat the purpose of a Jewish homeland and a Jewish majority. A two-state solution is the only way to go IMO. The West Bank has been peaceful in recent memory. Gaza, not so much. Why is that? Could it be that the people in the West Bank stopped trying to shoot rockets at Israel? Or that they stopped sending in suicide bombers? Logical, aint it?
You say you don't think Israel will kick the settlers out if it brings peace? Well, you said it yourself but they've done it twice in their history to foster peace. To say they wouldn't do the same in the future to gain true peace is plain wrong. They've shown they are willing to make serious concessions to gain real peace.
Palestine doesn't need a military. Its only enemy is Israel and if theres a two state peaceful solution, then they will have no enemy. Unless of course you don't trust their Arab brethren neighbors
