WHY NETANYAHU DOES NOT WANT TWO STATES

Chuck Todd (MSNBC) had Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis) as a guest on his show this morning. Wow, according to him, we can set right everything wrong in the world by having a bigger gun: Israel, Russia, Ukraine, E.U., etc. The sad truth is that this isn’t just some low-level hack talking; Johnson is on the Foreign Relations Committee in the most powerful legislative bodies in the world. I guess the redeeming feature is that he remiss in doing his job; he misses most votes. He is not talking from ignorance alone but is talking his politics; “realpolitik” of times gone by. He knows that Russia, for example, as a 2 trillion dollar economy compared to the U.S. 30 trillion dollar economy. On the other hand, he has no understanding of the situations on which he is making important decisions for the entire United States.

A prime example is the Israel-Palestinian conflict. He believes that we should negotiate the conflict according to what Prime Minister Netanyahu wants; in other words, 100% favoring the Israeli side. If you stop and try to understand why what he wants is so clearly pro Israel. Just look at what he wants; he does not say he wants a one state solution and openly and “loudly” says he is opposed to Presidents Obama’s two state solutions—tacit support for a one-state solution. The problem is he has the military Israeli industrial complex to support his one-state solution, which includes American congressional support voiced by people like Ron Johnson.

To see the errors of their ways they should look at what the purpose is of Israel as a country. What is the reason for its being? It exists because the world decided that the horrors of Jewish pogroms around the world exemplified by those of Nazi German during WWII had to stop. The entire world cries with them. The way to support them was to create a country where Jews had absolute control of government; therefore, the United Nations partitioned Palestine with Jewish controlled areas. Many people strongly supported this, including me; however, this support blinded me from day one; it was a bad idea. It violates the premise of freedom that we cherish so much in America, which is there must be separation of religion confined to moral groups as they want to define themselves verses secular governments defined by all of the people.

What that means to Netanyahu is what it means to everyone else. It means one state with Jews in totally control; a dictatorship in which Arabs have only a token voice. Obama supports a two state solution, so why doesn’t the Israeli Prime Minister support this as well. The answer is easy. The answer; in one word is ‘greed’; greed for territory. The Palestinians are seeing Israel build “settlements” on what they consider their “territory” not Jewish territory. In a way, territorial need is celebrating the success of Israel; so many people wanted to flee persecution or just want to live under Jewish rule that they moved to Israel, which means they need more territory. The U.N. resolution did not form two sovereign states but rather it established four legally but ill-defined territories. I don’t know if this was what the United Nations intended or was the result of Jewish pressure. The result is that it is easier Netanyahu to commander land if it is territory but impossible if that land is part of a sovereign state; it would be like the U.S. claiming ownership of Mexican or Canadian land. If a two state solution is realized, then the states’ boarders would be well defined as opposed to ill defined lines demarking territories.

The fact remains, Jews have a human right to live, as they want and to have land to live on; there is no question about that. The people in the world support that need. However, so do the Palestinians have that right! Yes they do. However, what neither Palestinians nor Israelis have is the right do, is take other countries’ land; the world would not support that and would condemn Netanyahu if he tired—that is the difference.  

The result of the way things are right now is that we have the mess we have today. I, or any interested person, can predict what Netanyahu will do; he will do what ever it takes to get the most territory before the world demands that Israel stop grabbing land; including trying to demand Sec. of State Kerry for trying. Also predictable is the unhappiness of Palestinians who have lost land and probably will never get it back—reestablish the 1967 boarders. Unfortunately, Hamas, a terrorist religious organization, entered the conflict and countered the Jewish claim of holy rights: God verses Allah, whatever that means. Equally unfortunate is the entry of the Jewish lobby (AIPAC) in to the conflict in the United States, which led to the entry of the most radical wing of  the conservative party, which represents the political world, which some will say matches radical Hamas in their uncompromising positions. Thus, the ancient conflict of politics verses religion rages on and on.

This “crisis” is no more then an extension of what has been happening for a long time now. The wide spread and long smoldering Arab Spring conflicts across the Middle East that Obama has so successful managed, not without criticism; however. It is like managing huge tectonic plate shifts; allowing people to chose what they want, which is democracy over caliphate governments without the dictatorial United States telling them what to do and/or giving them arms to do it; to kill one another. He has extended his policy, the Obama Policy, to the Israel-Palestine conflict; the result is that Israel is now facing pressure from the entire world to do right without the mighty United States blindly supporting their aggression; something that would have been impossible under a conservative president.    

  

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