Two State Solution is Dead

["M. Junaid Alam" <redjaguar@xxxxxxxxx>]

The farce of Oslo has sufficed for the Zionists to consume what tiny pieces
of land were to be called the Palestinian "state". Let anyone harboring
illusions of bourgeois-democratic solutions to this question finally take
heed.
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By Nicole Gaouette | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

JERUSALEM - US Undersecretary of State William Burns arrives in Israel today
bearing a road map to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even as he
does, analysts here say the basic concept underlying Middle East peace
efforts - a state for both peoples - is becoming obsolete.
The road map, part of a US push to muster regional support for war against
Iraq, outlines steps to create a Palestinian state alongside Israel. The
idea of co-existing states, based on a land-for-peace formula, has been the
blueprint for peace efforts for more than a decade. But as Mr. Burns arrives
to tout the latest incarnation, Israelis and Palestinians are increasingly
questioning whether an independent Palestinian entity is even feasible.

"If we were offered [a state] now it might be viable, but I don't know if it
will be practical in three, five, seven years," says Palestinian Minister of
Labor Ghassan Khatib. "Given political reality, the settlement policy, and
the radicalization of Palestinian politics, I think that every day the
viability of the two-state solution is less and less."

REST: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1023/p06s01-wome.html





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