Browse by Category

• Featured Commentary
• Today's News
• Heard on the street
• Setting the Record Straight
• Middle East Analysis
• Background Basics

Setting the Record Straight

Still the Only Option

posted on 04/21/08

“Even if a miracle happens and a final-status agreement is reached, and even if it is successfully implemented, it will not achieve stability, but rather, the opposite. There is no chance that the small, split, and resource-poor Palestinian state will constitute the homeland of satisfied people. … What is clear is that continued negotiations that cannot bring about any positive result are a waste of time at best and could lead to a third Intifadah at worst.”
–Major General (ret.) Giora Eiland, op-ed in Ynet "Back to the Jordanian Option," April 16, 2008

VS.

"The fact that there were no negotiations did little to stop terror. Maybe on the contrary—it increased it. I want to talk. I won’t miss any opportunity to try and reach an agreement. If we cannot reach a two-state solution, we’ll end up with one state for two nations. That’s what I said back in 2003. If we end up with only one state between the Mediterranean sea and Jordan, with all its citizens given a choice, the Jews will become the minority. It would be the loss of the Jewish state, which we believe to be the basis for out existence.”
–Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, interview with Yedioth Ahronoth, April 20, 2008