By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent: 'We are running out of time for a two-state solution'
Talkback
Title:On the `Jordan is Palestine` issue... (part III)
Name:Adam Paul
City: State:
Regardless of whether it`s fair to us as Jews who want to be able to lay claim to the entirety of our (tiny!) historical homeland that was stolen from us, and which we`ve yearned for for millennia, as well as to impartial historical observers who rightly note that `Jordan is Palestine` and the concept of creating a second Arab state in Palestine at the expense of the Jews is absurd - the fact of the matter is that it is the only practical solution today. Thinking that Jordan will confer citizenship on a populace of millions of people who don`t want it and don`t identify with the kingdom is patently absurd. Expecting the Arabs of Palestine to pack up and go, or to be able to forcibly expel them or even induce them to go voluntarily through incentives, is equally divorced from reality. There are millions of them in Eretz Yisrael - some who have been there from the time of Muhammad, and many (if not most) others who streamed in for economic reasons only after the Zionists came en masse.