The
two-state solution to incessant Palestinian attacks on Israel is officially
dead according to Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat. Erekat made the
remark in reply to a statement by Israeli Economic minister Naftali Bennet.
Deputy Defense Minister Danny Dannon echoed Bennet's recalcitrance on a
two-state solution. We thought as much might develop following the brutal
Shia-Sunni civil war in Iraq after the 2003 invasion of the coalition of the willing and neo-con bungling of
nation-rebuilding.
Gaza's
Hamas party has never quit attacking Israel, and as first cousin of the Muslim
Brotherhood the two-state solution founded on a secular government in Egypt and
a more moderate P.L.O does seem anachronistic. In the current political
environment of a destabilized Middle East, with shoulder-fired anti-jetliner
missiles purloined from the late Libyan Dictator Moamar Ghaddafi's arsenal
possible reaching Al Qaeda of the Nigeria or the Maghreb, and with a
recrudescent Sunni collection of visiting terrorist and revolutionaries active
in Syria seeking to establish another Muslim Brotherhood branch government
Israel is increasingly seeming to be in something like a geopolitical situation
like that before the 1967 Middle-East war where a pan-Arabic group of governments
led by Abdul Nasser developed and executed belligerent actions. If Israel were
to accept a two-state solution they would in effect simply be cede defense
territory before a possible next conflict. That would not be in Israel's
interest.
While the U.S. administration has said it would start to donate small arms (weapons of war such as assault weapons, grenades, semi-automatic pistols, machine guns and such) to particular illegal combatants in Syria who pro-Syrians might regard as terrorists for eating the intestines of dead government soldiers now and then, the Syrian conflict may continue for a few years with increased support from Hezballah and other neo-Shiite allies of the neo-Shia Alawite Assad Government. With such an alumni of terrorist pros gathering experience in the conflicts of the Middle East Israel will need to increase it's vigilance. After the end of the conflict in Syria pro or con the terrorist underground networks may seek further employment attacking Israel with renewed support from the infusion of small arms and weapons of war loosed during the Arab Spring of Revolt. In time the traditional unifying factor of terrorist networks might resume the trash talk and attack Israel axis of evil.
Probably
the better time for a two-state solution was before all of the changes of the
Arab spring and profusion of terrorists and terrorist weapons throughout the
Middle East. In the present destabilized environment Israel will have to hunker
down and increase its defense capabilities and border security. Perhaps in a
decade or two after the present generation of radicals ages a little it might
be a stable and responsible enough environment of political leadership for a
two-state solution with some land in Syria or Egypt going to Palestinians in
addition to the Gaza and some West Bank properties. It would probably be best
though that evolution through twittering and Facebooked friendly relations and
business practices develop such that in time the regional exploitation of
workers issues wither away.
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