There. It's finally done. Israel has ended the occupation. Tick. Tick. Tick.

So it's going to be One State. That seems very clear now. And the large, and growing Palestinian population will not have political or even legal rights. Not exactly Apartheid, but close enough to make no difference. Eventually, Americans will refuse to accept this. Certainly, young American Jews are already uncomfortable about this. Ultimately this kind of tyranny fails.

Recall that the War of Independence was fought because the Jewish side accepted the partition plan, preferring to have half the territory in which it could be self-determining by virtue of having a majority of the voters. The Arab side rejected the partition, preferring to have one state, including the entire territory, in which it would be the majority. If the panel claims that the West Bank is not occupied, because the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate gave the Jews the right to settle there, then it is in essence claiming that the West Bank is Israeli territory by virtue of Balfour and the Mandate. (The West Bank must be either occupied territory or Israel territory - it cannot be both at the same time). However, both those documents require that the civil rights of the existing non-Jewish population in the area must be protected. If Israel claims the territory based on those documents it must fulfill them entirely, and grant civil rights and citizenship to the Palestinians living there, otherwise, not only will the legality of its claim be in doubt, but it will become an apartheid state. And thus we will have, very shortly, a 23'rd Arab state named Israel, just as the Arab side wanted in 1948 (at least until a majority of the voters of said state decide to change it's name to something more appropriate - perhaps Ismael, for example)

What was it that Rabbi Hillel said about Judaism while standing on one foot?

If I could snap my fingers and make everybody Reform Jewish including the Palestinians, it would work. I don't know what's going to happen.

...Sure, let´s pretend that our neighbors want peace and that as soon as we have negotiated the peace that Dr. Abbas refuses to negotiate, so instead we withdraw unilaterally like in Gaza and with the same results, only the rockets start raining over Jerusalem. That will be a party no doubt. Especially for the Palestinians. And the rightists will say: Told you so. And the Leftists will go: Yes, but....

It seems Israel has a "denial river " of its own too

"No one is fooled. Not in the world, and not here."

Gaza is still occupied too, you know. And so is East Jerusalem.

and the courts justify the errors. THe world will not be convinced. Good try though.