One-State Two-Step

The land of the bible, home of Jews and Arabs has always been a politically disturbed region of the world. Like Gan Aden, there are flower blooms. Like the world after the expulsion of Adam and Chava there are enmities so profound that they tax human ingenuity to resolve them.

The one-state solution, the solution of Greeks, Romans, and Turks has been tested and has failed. Why should Arab rule work in Palestine? Those who propose a one-state solution are either politically naive or politically shrewd. In a united Palestine would not the fate of its minority--Jews--be the fate of the Jewish minority in all other Arab states? For the Jews to become again a minority may be our fate in the Middle-East as it is in the rest of the earth, but for us it would be a tragic although familiar endgame.