I have pointed many times that the proponents of two-state solution and "peace now" are often oblivious to the very basic facts of Arab-Israeli conflict. Sometimes, however, the facts are too obvious to ignore, as Lara Friedman of the "Americans for Peace" has realized at the Arab League conference:
"If representatives of the organization that sponsored the Arab Peace Initiative cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the legitimacy of Jewish equities in Jerusalem, they should know that they discredit their own professed interest in peace. Their framing of the future of Jerusalem as a zero-sum game only makes it more likely that Israel will continue asserting its current power over East Jerusalem to hinder the vision of two states living in peace with a Jerusalem as a shared capital."
Here are some of the facts that I have written about before:
1. There is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but a larger Arab-Israeli conflict
2. The two-state solution does not solve the Palestinian problem, but only the Israeli one
3. Palestinians have more pressing concerns than the statehood
4. Solving Arab-Israeli conflict is impossible within major democratic transformation in the Arab countries (here and here)
5. Westerns powers are interested in over-emphasizing the two-state solution in order to preserve good relations with the autocratic Arab leaders (here and here)
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