By Stan Goodenough
Dec 26, 2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon?s new Kadima Party will be campaigning on a platform of ?two states for two peoples? according to reports in the Israeli press Monday.
If those reports are accurate, the March 28 vote will be primarily about whether or not Israel as a nation agrees to the final and irreversible partitioning of its land.
?Two states for two peoples? is the vision of the Bush administration, and has been the internationally-supported solution to the troubling Arab-Jewish conflict since the 1920s, despite decades of proof that this formula is no solution at all.
It envisages a State of Israel and a State of Palestine existing side-by-side in Israel?s biblical homeland, reputedly in peace, but ? as evidenced by the ongoing American effort to see the vision realized despite the unrelenting terrorism ? clearly even without peace.
It allows to stand unchallenged ? thereby reinforcing ? the bogus claim that the ?Palestinians? are one of these ?peoples? and that they are entitled to national rights in this land.
Despite the fact that the Arab people never had a national homeland in the area known as Palestine, and that they have numerous states of their own, the United Nations voted in 1947 for the small, biblical Land of Israel to become two states ? one Jewish one Arab.
The Jews accepted the decision but the Arabs rejected it and tried to overrun newborn Israel in 1948.
Since then the Arab nation has waged a determined campaign, using terrorism and diplomacy, to drive the Jews from the Middle East.
Those efforts continue, and have gained great ground, while the erosion in the Jewish position has been consistent and is now almost complete.
The two-state idea, which Israel National News recalled was verbalized immediately after 1948 by the fringe Israeli communist party Rakah, is now being embraced by the widely supported mainstream Kadima Party under the leadership of the formerly ultra-hawkish Sharon.
Polls show Sharon leading the nation to victory, and thereby to defeat, as the reborn Jewish state is dealt its most fateful blow.