Stranger things than a two-state solution have happened on this planet. Online diazepam, If you are uncomfortable with the example of the State of Israel cited by Ibish, what about the pied noirs, the French colonists in Algeria, Massachusetts MA Mass. . They returned to France en masse after the Algerian civil war. Many said that couldn't be done but it happened because political realities made it happen, order diazepam online cheap. Louisiana LA , Are you really certain that the odds against the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from, say, 98% of the West Bank, cheapest diazepam online, are much much higher. Kansas KS Kans. , I know the parallels are not exact so don't give me a lecture about why the situations are different, please. I'm talking about odds here, generic diazepam, and how sometimes people --and national movements--beat the odds. Diazepam discount, So please tell me what you think of the piece on the "settler firebrands" by Ethan Bronner and Isabel Kershner in the NY Times a few weeks ago (9/16/2009). Order diazepam online cheap, They talked to the hard core ideologues, the people whom I've always believed would not be removed without a fight, whose implicit and explicit threats of violent resistance would make any Israeli government reluctant to take them on in order to fulfill the terms of an agreement. It turns out that while many will resist in some fashion, few are likely to fight pitched battles against Israeli soldiers, New Mexico NM N.Mex. .

I thought that article was one of the most heartening pieces I've read in a long time. So I wonder, were you disappointed by it. Did it prompt you to revisit your absolutely certainty that the settlers are entrenched, there are too many sewage lines and bypass roads for Jews-only, it is too late for two states, give it up, fuggedaboutit.

Another question confounds me, order diazepam online cheap. Do you honestly believe there is NO distinction between the occupied territories and Israel west of the Green Line. There is no essential difference between the plight of Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians under occupation. You don't need to lecture me on how Arabs in Israel are in many ways second-class citizens. I've probably been aware of that longer than most of you. Order diazepam online cheap, But when you say, "There is already one state. It is an apartheid state," that can only mean that you see no difference between stateless Palestinians with few rights who want independence from Israel --like other national liberation movements-- and Arab citizens of Israel who have rights but want more of them. and want to live in a shared society with fellow citizens who are Jewish. Folks, do you really believe Nablus in the West Bank is for all practical purposes the same as Sakhnin in the Gallilee.

There are too many questions on my mind. A blog post doesn't leave room for all of them. I'll stop here, and hope you can either explain the sources of your faith or admit that, like all faith, it is irrational, it passeth understanding.

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Buy diazepam no prescription, American Jews like me who argue against the one-state solution are constantly confronted by those who claim a moral high ground and cite the small but growing number of Palestinian intellectuals who have given up on two states. They spend much of their time showing why the two-state solution is no longer feasible while spending precious little time explaining how in the world one state could possibly arise, or what they have to offer Palestinians who need an end to the occupation as soon as possible. It was refreshing to read the following, Køb discount diazepam, devastating critique by Hussein Ibish of the American Task Force on Palestine, another passionate Palestinian moderate. Diazepam for sale, I will quote from it in full:

On college campuses in the United States and the United Kingdom, and increasingly among grassroots activists in the West generally, the cause of ending the Israeli occupation and securing independence for a Palestinian state is being abandoned in favor of a much more far-reaching goal of replacing Israel with a single, democratic state for all Israelis and Palestinians, Rabatt kaufen diazepam, including all of the refugees. Until now, Order diazepam no prescription, this rhetoric has been largely unchallenged from a pro-Palestinian perspective, which has probably been a significant factor in its appeal.

My new book, “What’s Wrong with the One-State Agenda?”, traces the development of this agenda and interrogates its assumptions and claims, buy diazepam no prescription.

The outbreak of the second intifada in September 2000, which inflicted profound suffering and created deep ill-will on both the sides of the Palestinian-Israeli divide, buy diazepam cheap, bolstered stridently nationalist perspectives among Israelis and Palestinians. For many, Acheter diazepam discount, it prompted a negative re-evaluation of what kind of peace was possible and desirable.

In Israel, this was manifested in the collapse of the “peace camp,” a radical shift to the political right and the election of Ariel Sharon, Køb billige diazepam, who became prime minister. Among the Palestinians, Minnesota MN Minn. , Islamists, especially Hamas, gained significant ground. Buy diazepam no prescription, In the Palestinian diaspora, where support for Hamas is limited and, especially in the United States, politically untenable and even legally risky, this same disillusionment and radicalization was largely expressed through the rise of the one-state agenda.

More generally, Maryland MD Md. , the one-state agenda reflects the conclusion that Israel will never agree to seriously end the occupation and allow for the creation of a fully sovereign, viable Palestinian state, Farmacia diazepam baratos, therefore that negotiations and diplomacy are pointless. At the end of Part One of my book I pose a series of pointed questions that are not usually addressed to, or have been insufficiently answered by, one-state advocates, kjøpe billig diazepam, and that in many cases their sympathizers have not adequately considered. Here are the six of them:

First, Billige diazepam apotek, if Israel will not agree to end the occupation, what makes anyone think that it will possibly agree to dissolve itself. If Israel cannot be compelled or convinced to surrender 22 percent of the territory it holds, how can it be compelled or convinced to surrender or share 100 percent of it, ordering diazepam no rx.

Second, what, as a practical matter, does this vision of a single, democratic state offer to Jewish Israelis, buy diazepam no prescription.

Third, what efforts have Palestinian and pro-Palestinian one-state advocates made in reaching out to mainstream Jews and Israelis and to incorporating their national narrative into this vision. Purchase diazepam online, Fourth, how do one-state advocates propose to supersede or transcend Palestinian national identity and ambitions. Why is it that no significant Palestinian political party or faction has adopted the one-state goal.

Fifth, diazepam cheap, how, apart from empty slogans about largely nonexistent and highly implausible boycotts, Cheap diazepam from canada, do one-state advocates propose to realize or advance their vision. Buy diazepam no prescription, What practical steps do they imagine and what is their road map for success.

And sixth, since they reject both Palestinian independence and the ongoing agenda of infrastructural and institutional development presently defining the strategy of what they consider the “quisling” Palestinian Authority, what do one-state advocates, Missouri MO Mo. , as a practical matter, offer those living under occupation other than expressions of solidarity and interminable decades of continued struggle and suffering. Oregon OR Ore. , It is striking that the most ardent and tenacious one-state advocates seem to be taking a great deal of their time in even starting to formulate answers to these questions. Assad AbuKhalil, who comments on anything and everything on his blog, has remained strangely silent, köpa diazepam online. Ali Abunimah, who is surely the most ardent and prolific one-state proponent in the United States, Michigan MI Mich. , and who also runs a well-read blog, also appears at a loss for words. Even the overgrown juvenile delinquents at the Kabobfest blog, who have exhibited signs of suffering from a cybersphere version of Tourette’s syndrome, are also strangely passing up what would seem to be a golden opportunity to repeat their usual accusations about “traitors” and “collaborators.”

I have no doubt that sooner or later a response, and hopefully a calm and thoughtful one, will be forthcoming from some of the committed one-state advocates, buy diazepam no prescription. But the amount of time it is taking for them to offer any sort of answer to these extremely relevant questions suggests, perhaps, osta alennus diazepam, that they are proving difficult to formulate and quite possibly were not anticipated.

But there surely must be a considerable burden of proof on those proposing that the Palestinian national movement abandon its long-standing goal of ending the occupation, Georgia GA Ga. , which is based on a huge body of international law and reflects a regional and international consensus, in favor of a grand experiment in almost entirely uncharted waters that poses significant risks and offers uncertain benefits. One-state proponents have an obligation to explain how exactly they think they can achieve the extraordinary task of compelling or convincing Israel to effectively dissolve itself.

Unless it offers answers to simple, Illinois IL Ill. , clear and obvious questions such as these, the one-state rhetoric will be an agenda for accomplishing very little if anything. Buy diazepam no prescription, Rather it will merely be a convenient vehicle for rejecting any and all things Israeli and adopting a position of uncompromising confrontation. Buy diazepam cod, This is not an abstract intellectual exercise. Those seeking to liberate the Palestinian people cannot allow themselves to be beguiled by the narcissistic thrill of “winning” an academic debate on campuses while contributing nothing, even doing harm, to the causes of peace and Palestine, Washington WA Wash. .

Hussein Ibish is a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine in Washington DC. His book is available for free download or purchase on the website of the American Task Force on Palestine (americantaskforce.org). He wrote this commentary for THE DAILY STAR.

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Order soma online cheap, There is a peculiar, paranoid style of Jewish politics. Its logic would be shameful and contorted even it didn't come from descendants of the people who invented sophisticated, multi-layered Talmudic pilpul: once someone is deemed beyond the communal pale, Maine ME Me. , an enemy of the Jews, Comprar soma, then you become tainted if you approvingly quote anything he or she has ever written.

When reviewing my book in the Jerusalem Post, Jonathan Schanzer blamed me for citing Rob Malley's thoughts on how the American Jewish community influences State Department policymakers: "The author also does himself a disservice by quoting Robert Malley, Om soma online, who coauthored articles after the collapse of the Oslo process with Hussein Agha, New Jersey NJ N.J. , a former adviser to Yasser Arafat, blaming Israel and exonerating Arafat." This is not exactly classic guilt-by-association. It is worse, buy soma online. It is guilt-by-thought-association. (Actually, it's worse than that, because it completely distorts what Malley and Agha have written), order soma online cheap. Soma online, Similarly, a Realistic Dove commentator once insisted that MondoWeiss, the hard-hitting and often disturbing blog from Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz, Pennsylvania PA Penn. , be removed from my blogroll. Rhode Island RI R.I. , I have often used this space to argue passionately with Weiss, but have also agreed with him. Either way, buy soma online, his blog often provides information available nowhere else. Soma online stores, Why is agreeing with him sometimes, let alone keeping him on a blogroll, equivalent to embracing every one of his thoughts, bestill soma online. Order soma online cheap, To these thought police, probably the worst sin is giving the slightest hint that you agree with anything that Stephen Walt or John Mearsheimer have ever propounded about Israel and the Israel lobby. My book takes exception to some of their characterizations of the Jewish community and foreign policy decisionmaking. Ordering soma pills, But, in addition, I wrote that while "they got a lot of things wrong..., soma en ligne afin,they also got a lot of things right." To some, Purchase soma, making the latter point was the equivalent of saying something obscene in front of little children.

So now it can be told (take a deep breath, Danny): I OFTEN LIKE WHAT STEPHEN WALT WRITES ON HIS BLOG, Kaufen soma. I think that, Buy soma, more often than not, I am a foreign policy "realist," too, farmacia soma baratos. In his reaction to the controversial op-ed in the NY Times by Hussein Agha and Rob Malley, he wrote almost precisely what I was going to write, order soma online cheap. It was so close, Köpa soma, in fact, that I didn't bother to write anything. The money quote, cheap soma overnight delivery, for me:

...(T)he most significant lines in the entire essay were the last two, Buy soma without prescription, where they write "the heart of the matter is not necessarily how to define a state of Palestine. It is, in a sense it always has been, cheap soma no prescription, how to define the state of Israel." Again, Where to buy soma, they didn't explain what they meant by this, so it's hard to know what they were trying to say.

The implication, acheter soma, however, Ordering soma online without prescription, is that Israel still has to decide what kind of state it is going to be. Order soma online cheap, Will it be a modern secular democracy with a certain Jewish character, but where non-Jews are fully equal citizens both de jure and de facto. If so, then two states will work, Oregon OR Ore. , and the two conflicting narratives about the past could gradually cease to matter very much. In the most optimistic scenario, the whole sorry history of the Zionist-Arab conflict might eventually be regarded as a painful historical episode but not part of anyone's future agenda, much as Alsace-Lorraine eventually ceased to be an issue between France and Germany. Or will Israel continue to pursue the dream of Greater Israel, increasingly fueled by ethno-religious claims and the growing political power of religious extremists. If so, then it will become an apartheid state and will eventually face a Palestinian struggle for democratic rights....Needless to say, these different visions will have far-reaching implications for relations between Israel and its neighbors, the rest of the world, and between Israel and the Jewish diaspora...I wish Agha and Malley had been less coy in raising this important set of issues.

He sounds like a left wing, progressive Zionist. In fact, he sounds a bit like Ehud Olmert, just before he left office. So kick me out of the tent, folks. But after you do, you might want to try a daring experiment: forget that Walt wrote one book or a few blog posts that you didn't like, and garner whatever truth he has to offer. The truth is always worth hearing, whether it comes from Arutz Sheva (the settlers' radio station), or Philip Weiss, or Benjamin Netanyahu, or Mahmoud Abbas, or Walt and Mearsheimer.

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Buy soma c.o.d., Realistic Dove has never addressed the controversial BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement. One reason is that I keep taking one step towards it and then three steps back. Ordering soma from canada, It is a broad movement, and some of what some of its supporters advocate has begun to make sense to me. But much too much of it is ill-advised (c'mon on, discount soma, let Leonard Cohen sing in Tel Aviv, Billig kaufen soma, for God's sake, and leave the universities alone!). So I'm still trying to figure out what to think and do about it.., αγοράσετε soma έκπτωση.

Recently, however, the originators of the international BDS movement (the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, or PACBI) put forward a premise that is so disturbing that it is worth singling out even before a broader discussion takes place here, buy soma c.o.d..

On July 20th, Missouri MO Mo. , PACBI published new guidelines that were meant to clarify which Israeli events or institutions should be subject to a boycott. One guideline asserted that the boycott should apply to an event or cultural project that "promotes false symmetry or `balance.'" The explanation:

Cultural events and projects involving Palestinians and/or Arabs and Israelis that promote “balance” between the “two sides” in presenting their respective narratives, as if on par, Tennessee TN Tenn. , or are otherwise based on the false premise that the colonizers and the colonized, αγοράσετε soma, the oppressors and the oppressed, are equally responsible for the “conflict,” are intentionally deceptive, order soma online, intellectually dishonest and morally reprehensible. New Mexico NM N.Mex. , Such events and projects, often seeking to encourage dialogue or “reconciliation between the two sides” without addressing the requirements of justice, promote the normalization of oppression and injustice, acquistare online soma. All such events and projects that bring Palestinians and/or Arabs and Israelis together, Kansas KS Kans. , unless framed within the explicit context of opposition to occupation and other forms of Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, are strong candidates for boycott. Buy soma c.o.d., Other factors that PACBI takes into consideration in evaluating such events and projects are the sources of funding, the design of the program, the objectives of the sponsoring organization(s), the participants, and similar relevant factors.

In other words, they don't like it when Israelis tell their side of their story. They don't want to hear the narrative of the Other and they don't know want other Palestinians to listen to it, Mississippi MS Miss. . They are not only objecting to events or groups whose panels and conversations end up supporting and perpetuating the status quo. Order soma no prescription, They don't want ANY process that fosters reconciliation or understanding between the two sides unless it is part of an explicitly declared effort to end the occupation or protest Israeli policies.

The mind reels. This guideline takes its cue from Stalin, not Mandela, buy soma c.o.d.. Unless I missed something, halvalla soma apteekki, PACBI is agnostic when it comes to a one-state or a two-state solution. Soma ordine on-line, In either case, Israelis and Palestinians will have to learn, somehow, Alaska AK , to live with each other. Kjøp Discount soma, That requires at least some understanding of why people believe what they believe, but this formulation condemns understanding itself. This is, order soma without prescription, to say the least, Oregon OR Ore. , self-defeating. Buy soma c.o.d., The PACBI organizers presumably believe in the Palestinian Right of Return. but apparently they don't want Palestinians and Israelis to meet in neutral settings so the Palestinians can explain why the Right of Return is so important to them.

What about all of the dialogue programs and other projects that foster co-existence and equality between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Israeli Jews, köpa billiga soma. I showed the guidelines to Ami Nahshon, Buy cheap soma, CEO of the Abraham Fund --which operates such programs--and asked him what he thought. Here is his response (it includes a reference to another PACBI guideline, which calls for boycotting anything connected to Israeli municipal governments, ordering soma online, including--presumably--those in mixed Arab and Jewish cities like Haifa).

The Abraham Fund (and presumably Givat Haviva and many/most Jewish-Arab coexistence and rights organizations in Israel) would seem to qualify for a...boycott based on any number of "criteria" cited in the document, for example:

-- projects carried out in affiliation with an official Israeli body or municipality (this would include most of The Abraham Fund's work, including our national initiative to bring human rights and multicultural values to the Israel Police; to mandate the teaching of Arabic language and culture in Jewish schools; a pilot program to assist Arab Israeli women in entering the workforce; even our sponsorship of a national Iftar dinner, in co-sponsorship with the Arab municipality of Sakhnin and the mostly-Jewish municipal authority of Misgav), buy soma c.o.d.. Ordering soma from canada, --projects which bring Palestinian-Arab and Jewish Israelis together to challenge stereotypes, promote mutual respect and engender empathy with the "other's" historical narrative and experience, as a building block for reconciliation and shared society values, Georgia GA Ga. . (These programs, New York NY N.Y. , sponsored by The Abraham Fund and many others) would be obvious candidates for boycott because they are not "framed within the explicit context of opposition to occupation and other forms of Israeli oppression."

But one needn't go into such detail. The preamble to the boycott criteria says it all: "...Before discussing the various categories of cultural products and events and as a general overriding rule, virtually all Israeli cultural institutions, unless proven otherwise, are complicit in maintaining the Israeli occupation and denial of basic Palestinian rights, whether through their silence or actual involvement in justifying, whitewashing or otherwise deliberately diverting attention from Israel's violations of international law and human rights. Accordingly, these institutions, all their products, and all the events they sponsor or support must be boycotted. Events and projects involving individuals explicitly representing these complicit institutions should be boycotted..."

The message is clear: any Israel-based activity that is not explicitly organized for the purpose of ending the occupation or focusing attention on "...Israel's violations of international law and human rights" has no place on the international map. Activities aimed at reducing Palestinian infant mortality and poverty, at advocating for government reforms that advance civil and human rights, at creating partnerships for economic, social and political progress across the divide -- these are all instruments of complicity with the status quo. That is, of course, a position which one could take. It is, in my view though, an absurd and self-defeating position for those who would purport to be motivated by values of peace, justice and rights for all.

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He quotes a piece by Sandy Tolan in the Christian Science Monitor that presents all-too-familiar arguments for why it is too late, there is no hope, the Palestinians have been deprived of a state of their own, give up, give up, all you two-state idealists, the settlement enterprise is irrevocable, nothing can get the Jews out of Ariel...

That might be true, of course. Cheapest cialis in the world, The odds are more daunting than ever. But these warnings are hardly new. What is new is the turned-up volume of the one-staters, who have decided that, cialis cheap, somehow, magically, Billiga cialis apotek, out of the torn limbs and mangled homes of Gaza, at a moment when the utter hatred between Israelis and Palestinians has never been more raw, the answer comes from...Albert Einstein.

Here is Horowitz, quoting Tolan:

Yet it was no less a man than Albert Einstein who believed in "sympathetic cooperation" between "the two great Semitic peoples" and who insisted that "no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." A relative handful of Israelis and Palestinians are beginning to survey the proverbial new ground, considering what Einstein's theories would mean in practice, buy cialis no prescription. They might take heart from Einstein's friend Martin Buber, cialis pills, the great philosopher who advocated a binational state of "joint sovereignty," with "complete equality of rights between the two partners, Order cialis no rx, " based on "the love of their homeland that the two peoples share."

Even though Tolan uses examples from the past, it's clear the discourse is moving forward.

Those who agree with Einstein and Buber today have not come up with a practical political path to get from here to there. They just content themselves with keeping the "discourse" alive, preferring to reside in a kind of rarified, buy cialis online, ideological never-never-land where simply advocating a dream is sufficient. There is a reason why only a "relative handful" of Israelis and Palestinians are surveying "proverbial ground." The reason is that the rest of them must live on real ground, Price of cialis, in the actual world. As former Palestinian negotiator Ghaith al-Omari once told me, "It is easy to live in Chicago and believe in a one-state solution. Buy cialis no prescription, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza understand that the most immediate priority is to end the occupation, as soon as possible...That means two states." They cannot afford to wait until Esperanto becomes a universal language, nuclear weapons are dismantled everywhere, and Israeli Jews decide to renounce their state and become a minority group, like Jews everywhere else.

I would like to believe that, köpa cialis online, had I been a contemporary of Buber and Judah Magnes and the other Israeli idealists who strived for a binational state, I would have agreed with them. Comprar cialis baratos, But I am not their contemporary. Check out this screed from Realistic Dove, from April, 2007, buy generic cialis, for a few reasons (mostly from Uri Avnery) why the one-state solution is simply unworkable. This is not the place for yet another rendition of that tired argument.

It is worth pointing out, though, that those who are perpetuating the one-state idea now are inadvertently hurting Palestinians in the ravaged Gaza Strip, buy cialis no prescription. Buy cialis, A fascinating JTA op-ed last week by Americans for Peace Now's Ori Nir has not gotten the attention it deserves. It offers compelling reasons why, right now, "the only real viable hope for Gaza is a link to the other Palestinian territory, Um cialis online, the West Bank. Only a strong relationship with the West Bank, Order cialis online, reinforced by unhindered safe passage between the two Palestinian territories, can provide the remedy for Gaza. In other words, the only real hope for Gaza lies in the two-state solution."

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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Last week I dug up an old, Cialis pills, yellowing Israeli intelligence report from April 1987 headlined "The Gaza Strip toward the year 2000." It was authored by the "Civil Administration," Israel's military government, only several months before the eruption in Gaza of the first intifada. Buy cialis no prescription, The secret document, distributed to Israel's top security leadership, provides both a high-resolution snapshot (more than 200 pages) of Gaza and a careful forecast. Amazingly, billiga cialis apotek, it predicted a process of multifaceted integration of the Gaza Strip into Israel.

Reading the report, Købe cialis, written less than 22 years ago, is like a voyage to ancient history. What the report clearly shows, however, αγοράσετε cialis έκπτωση, is that policy mistakes and misunderstandings about Gaza are as old as Israel's 41-year-old occupation of the strip.

The population of Gaza in 1987 was 633, Order cialis cod, 600. Today it has climbed to more than 1.5 million, buy cialis no prescription. The report predicted that by the year 2000, the strip's population would reach 1 million -- a "maximal forecast" depicted as "unreasonable," meaning unreasonably high, Missouri MO Mo. . In fact, by 2000, Florida FL Fla. , the strip's population had mushroomed to 1.132 million. The fertility rate for 2000 was predicted to drop from 6.60 to 5.80, but it remained at 6.55 and was estimated at 5.19 in 2008.

The report did talk, Oregon OR Ore. , casually , about the "increase in the strength" of the fundamentalist Islamist political stream, Order cialis c.o.d., but noted that although the Islamists support Israel's destruction, they believe that their first focus ought to be "preparing the hearts and minds" within their community. Buy cialis no prescription, Around that time, as a reporter covering Palestinian affairs, I met with the Israeli governor of Gaza, who told me that Israel had "no problem" with the Islamists because they were not engaged in any subversive or violent activity. To the contrary: Israel's military government in Gaza, dividing and ruling as it always did, cialis online kopen, gently nurtured the Islamists as a counterweight to the Palestinian Liberation Organization during the 1980s.

The most fascinating -- and today fantastical -- chapter in the report is the one examining the social trends in the strip. Order cialis, It predicted the accelerated socio-political integration of the Gaza Strip into Israel, as well as "an increase in reciprocal dependency between the Gaza Strip and Israel." It predicted the "penetration of the Strip's employees into high-level professions in Israel," and even Gazans' "imitation of the Israeli life style."

So much for that. The Palestinians of Gaza rebelled against Israel's occupation months after the report was issued and have been fighting for independence for more than two decades.

The Palestinians of Gaza, just like their brethren in the West Bank, need and deserve political independence, buy cialis no prescription. But the Gaza Strip simply cannot live in political or economic isolation. The 22-year-old Israeli report is clear about that. Its message is that the Gaza Strip has no viability, no future, as an isolated, detached entity.

At the time there was no fence between Israel and Gaza, not even a roadblock or a checkpoint at the entrance to the strip. Buy cialis no prescription, Today it is impossible to imagine open borders between Israel and Gaza.

Israel will not become again an economic lifeline for Gaza in the foreseeable future. Neither will Egypt, its southern neighbor. Both Israel and Egypt see Gaza as nothing but trouble.

The only real viable hope for Gaza is a link to the other Palestinian territory, the West Bank. Only a strong relationship with the West Bank, reinforced by unhindered safe passage between the two Palestinian territories, can provide the remedy for Gaza, buy cialis no prescription. In other words, the only real hope for Gaza lies in the two-state solution.

Israelis and Palestinians must keep in mind that a cease-fire is not an alternative to peace. Israelis and Palestinians, and the international third parties that help them advance toward peace, must remember that just as a two-state solution is the only way in which Israel can secure its long-term character as a Jewish and democratic state, so does the two-state solution provide the only hope for Gaza to reach a reasonable level of normalcy and sustainability in the long run. Only a two-state solution can provide the uninterrupted, robust lifeline to the West Bank that the Gaza Strip needs.

The war and the cease-fire that followed show yet again that only a two-state solution provides a horizon of hope for Israelis and Palestinians to reach the peace and long-term security that they so much deserve.

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