Half of Israel’s population continues to support a vision of two states for two peoples, and if Israelis believed it was possible to achieve such a solution, that number would grow to two thirds.
Israel should announce immediately its willingness to have those 18,000 remaining residents of Yarmouk come to the West Bank. There should be no conditions attached to Israel’s benevolent action.
Today it is the Jewish side which refuses to accept the proposal and attempts to suggest that those nations which support the upcoming Security Council Resolution are anti-Israel.
I challenge the Palestinians and ask: why it is so hard for them to recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people?
Israel will not be a better place to live following these elections. But this is what the majority of Israelis voted for and this is what they will get.
It seems a very likely possibility that both Kahlon and President Rivlin will push for a so-called national unity government with Likud and Labor rotating for Prime Minister.
There is simply no way Israel can be both democratic and the nation state of the Jewish people if Israel continues to deny the Palestinians their right to self-determination.
We, the people of Israel, will pay for Netanyahu’s arrogance.
Gershon Baskin shares his views at the The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University (CMES) in Sweden
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