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Netanyahu won't stand for two state solution.

Pete Trimmer | 01.03.2009 11:20

He wants a bantustan solution.

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On Friday, a second round of talks between Netanyahu and Kadima leader Tzipi Livni failed as Netanyahu said there would be no two-state solution.

"A final agreement will see the Palestinians having the full authority to run their lives," he reportedly told Livni. "But do you want them to have control of the air space, their own army, the right for them to make alliances with other states like Iran, or control over borders that would allow for weapons imports? I won't stand for it."

According to a source familiar with the situation, Netanyahu said he would "go on and take forward the talks with the Palestinians. But if they get full sovereignty it will pose a risk to the security of the State of Israel."

Sources say Netanyahu was not against the Palestinians having some autonomy in foreign affairs, such as embassies and diplomatic ties with any country in the world. But he deliberately avoided the use of the word "state" because it implied sovereignty and control over military affairs.

Pete Trimmer

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Netanyahu supports one-state solution!

01.03.2009 14:31

Mr Netanyahu has realised that walls, separation and checkpoints with guns and all this two-state solution stuff just isn't going to work. He's going to encourage the right to return for refugees and merge Israel and Palestine into one state. He's also going to decommission the military of this one state, destroying all weapons, because he doesn't trust the idea of ruling by force.

The new state is going to be based on a policy he is calling 'open doors' where everyone is given financial incentives to share food, medicine, education, water and their homes with any person or family who is lacking these things.

In a patronising nod to the likes of Sharon as a leader who got it so wrong and in the spirit of generosity and sharing, the new state will be called Sharaelstine.

He is also going to encourage all other states in the area of the middle east to create the equivalent of the European Union - the only difference being that this Union will have genuine freedom of movement for all people of the world into and out of its member countries.

Three cheers for Mr Netanyahu!!

Koogie

one state, a bit late.

02.03.2009 14:02

Perhaps a (secular) one state solution, as was originally voted against by the nations of the UN, where everyone gets to vote, Palestinian and Israeli, would solve this problem. Not having borders, walls and segregation (which allows generstions to grow up thinking those on the otherside are evil/inhuman/inferior) would also help.

Sadly the defacto version of a one state solution is one where only the Israeli's get to vote and the Palestinians still have to live with the outcomes of those votes.

Getting from the present situation to an inclusive secular one state would take immense work and imagination. Palisrael anyone?

historian