(CAMERA) Eric Rozenman - George Bisharat, in "A True One-State Solution" (Washington Post, Sept. 3), presents a series of falsehoods as facts. Among them: "A de facto one-state reality has emerged with Israel effectively ruling virtually all of the former Palestine." Except during British Mandatory Palestine (1920-1948) there was no "former Palestine," no country or province by that name. Jordan, created by Great Britain in 1921, rules 77% of former mandatory Palestine, Israel about 16%. Most of the West Bank Arab population is effectively administered by the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority and all of it in Gaza by the Iranian-supported Hamas. "By settling roughly 500,000 Jews in east Jerusalem and the West Bank," Israel has been "eliminating the land base for a viable Palestinian state." Since Israel reunified Jerusalem as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War, the Arab population has grown faster than the Jewish sector. At Camp David in 2000, Taba in 2001, and after the 2007 Annapolis summit, the Palestinian leadership rejected statehood on more than 95% of the West Bank and Gaza in exchange for peace with Israel.
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