Haaretz Service: Mitchell: A Palestinian state is a U.S. national interest
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Title:UN Security Council Resolution 242 doesn`t suggest a "two-state..
Name:Jehudah Ben-Israel
City: JerusalemState: Israel
...solution"!!!

At the most, 242 suggests the transfer of authority in some of the disputed territories to the states that had controlled them before Israel captured them in the defensive Six-Day War.

The "two-state solution" was advanced only towards the very end of the 1980s by Arafat, recognizing that the elimination of Israel in a one-fell-swoop was impossible, thus he proposed the setting up of the staging territory from which he and his armed forces will continue to the war of attrition-by-terror against Israel and its civilian population.

Gaza after 2005 is a perfect example of what he had in mind: not an attempt to bring about an accommodation of peaceful coexistence with Israel but rather a way to continue the war of terror the Muslim-Arabs commenced in Eretz Israel (Land of Israel/Palestine) in 1920, hoping to drive the Jews into the sea.

It appears that American naivite falls into this trap placed there by Arafat`s successors who refuse to recognize Israel`s right to be!