Arabs are increasingly against an Arab and Israeli state and prefer a single country, according to a recent article in the Al Ajeera Arab news service.
“The alternative for Arabs seems to be a unified state with equal rights for everyone, and that itself of course would put an end to the main obstacle to peace—Zionism itself, Arab academic Ghada Karmi told the news service.
The shift in opinion “represents a stunning rejection of the peace process, which has advocated a two-state solution,” according to the article. “Palestinian officials privately admit the two-state solution is a dead duck but nevertheless they back it in public. There are some officials who know they will be finished politically if the two-state solution fails.”
Karmi added that Arabs outside of Israel “are largely behind the one-state solution because it is the only way they are going to go back home.” She said the areas in Judea, Samaria and Gaza “simply are not big enough to accommodate them.”
The article quotes David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as saying that the “one-state solution is totally unrealistic because it would effectively mean the end of Israel.”
“The alternative for Arabs seems to be a unified state with equal rights for everyone, and that itself of course would put an end to the main obstacle to peace—Zionism itself, Arab academic Ghada Karmi told the news service.
The shift in opinion “represents a stunning rejection of the peace process, which has advocated a two-state solution,” according to the article. “Palestinian officials privately admit the two-state solution is a dead duck but nevertheless they back it in public. There are some officials who know they will be finished politically if the two-state solution fails.”
Karmi added that Arabs outside of Israel “are largely behind the one-state solution because it is the only way they are going to go back home.” She said the areas in Judea, Samaria and Gaza “simply are not big enough to accommodate them.”
The article quotes David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as saying that the “one-state solution is totally unrealistic because it would effectively mean the end of Israel.”