What are the pros and cons of a two state solution for Israel and the Palestinian people?

What are the pros and cons of a two state solution for Israel and the Palestinian people?

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What defines the so-called Palestinian people? Are they a people by definition or by political design? The name Palestinian belongs only to the Jews of Judea, simple fact. Now, look at the “Palestinian people”:

• Do they have their own language? 
• Do they have their own culture? 
• Do they have their own history? 
• Do they have their own religion? 
• Do they have their own flag?

The answer to all of that is NO. The areas that they live in have belonged to the Jewish people for thousands of years. Up until 1948, the area known today as the West bank was known as Judea and Samaria. All proven facts.

Two state solution? Look at the facts. When the PLO was founded in 1964, they specifically declared that the area occupied by Jordan and Egypt was not a part of their future demands, that includes what you refer to as East Jerusalem and the Jewish Holy Places.

Article 24. This Organization does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or the Himmah Area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political and financial fields.

Look at Yassir Arafat the leader of the PLO and then the PA for many years:

And look at another member of the PLO:

Look at the Fatah maps - see any two state there? look at the PA insignia - any two state? Look at their official logo: Palestine Liberation Organization. Hamas and Fatah all said that any solution is temporary, a hudna. So the con is simple, there is little hope for peace.

What Israel must do is to withdraw from Area A and B and make that the border. They can self-govern that. Oh wait, tried that, it was called Oslo A and B. What a proven failure. Billions of dollars poured into that area and instead of building a nation, they created pure terror and billionaires.

Theoretical pros for Israel:

• Peace or at least cold peace like we have with Jordan 
• Less terrorism thanks to an international border. However leaving Gaza has shown us that that is wishful thinking.

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Why does Israel want to shift the capital to Jerusalem?

Why does Israel want to shift the capital to Jerusalem?

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Questions like this never cease to amaze me. It shows a deep lack of knowledge. I am not sure where you got the idea from that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel, the media maybe? Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda said:

"If you tell a lie big enough, and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it"~Joseph Goebbels

This question is proof of that. Jerusalem is and as always been the capital of Israel and the Jewish people. No one else has any valid claim to the city. Do you know how long it has been the capital? 3000 years! It was the capital of the Jewish Kingdom of Judea and the symbol of Judea exists in Jerusalem today.

Now, two questions for you:

• Who has the right to define where your capital city is? The country where the city is situated or someone else? 
• Apart from Israel and the Jewish people, has Jerusalem ever been the capital of any other country? Or even nation?

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”― Edmund Burke

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