Reply #5: I find quite a bit of fault with that

[Jack Rabbit]

The "dovish" position is to slowly push them out with settlement building. The rightist position, of course, is to blatantly continue bulldozing their homes and murdering their civilians with American made missiles and daily gun-fire.

That seems to make no admission that there are Israelis who oppose the occupation altogether. Are you saying that Mr. Avnery is not an Israeli? Are you saying that BTselem is not an Israeli human rights organization?

Yet, anyone who proposes a one-state/binational solution is quickly dismissed as living in "fantasy" and should step aside to let the elite planners continue the current treacherous course

I happen to be among those who the one-state/binational solution is a fantasy. I could be persuaded that it's a good idea, but selling me on the idea that you can sell it to enough other people to make it worth discussing is another matter. Therefore, whether it's a good idea or not is beside the point.

The history of the Jewish people is one where they have been persecuted wherever they have found themselves to be a minority. They believe there is strength in their numbers. Consequently, the most secure way to make sure the Zionist dream carries on is to make sure there is a Jewish majority in Israel.

Swallowing the occupied territories destroys that majority. In short order, Jews will be outnumbered. The Israeli right is finally learning of what the Israeli left has warned all along: A Greater Israel cannot be a Jewish democracy; it will either be Jewish or democratic, but it cannot be both.

If Israeli Jews are going to continue to enjoy democratic freedoms, which I believe are precious, and at the same time have a Jewish state, then the only way they will do that is to let go of the territories and submit to a two-state solution.

That is why we will soon see a sovereign Palestine.