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At This Point, a Two-State Solution Is Asking Israel to Commit Suicide
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) Yaara Segal - The atrocities committed on Oct. 7 will forever mark a massive turning point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For perhaps the first time, Israelis were left with no choice but to believe the Palestinian side, whose actions were nowhere near signaling for peace, nor any solution resulting in any type of coexistence. Yet as the American administration repeatedly stresses the importance of a two-state solution which would entail the creation of a Palestinian state, it is completely oblivious to the new reality Israel has been facing. Asking Israel to support a two-state solution at this time is tantamount to asking Israel to commit suicide. Israel simply cannot allow the creation of an Iranian-backed Islamist state at its doorstep. The Biden administration is thinking of giving postwar control of Gaza to the incompetent and corrupt Palestinian Authority, whose leaders - Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas - have turned down every single Israeli peace offer since 2000. Both Arafat and Abbas had several opportunities to establish a Palestinian state. However, they rejected these offers time and again, denying their people the opportunity to live in peace and security in their own state next to Israel. When speaking in Arabic, the PA and Hamas leaders sound almost identical, especially when it comes to talking about Israel. As such, it's hard to see how the PA could be entrusted with managing a Palestinian state that exists peacefully alongside Israel. Before Oct. 7, most Israelis believed in peace with the Palestinians. Today, many Israelis no longer believe that this is a realistic scenario in the foreseeable future. A barbaric massacre will do that to people. Hamas showed us who they are on Oct. 7, and we believe them. The writer served in Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is the former senior advisor to Israel's ambassador in the UAE.