Until Jews Can Live in a Palestinian State, Peace Won’t Be Possible
Why settlements shouldn’t be seen as “obstacles to peace.”
July 5, 2018
Until Jews Can Live in a Palestinian State, Peace Won’t Be Possible
Why settlements shouldn’t be seen as “obstacles to peace.”
Whenever proposals are made for the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, it is inevitably assumed that any Jews who find themselves on the Palestinian side of a newly drawn border will have to be relocated to Israel. Hence the argument that the Jewish communities in the West Bank are “an obstacle to peace.” But, argue Rafael Castro and Efraim Karsh, the same assumption shows exactly why a two-state solution is unfeasible:
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