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The 2-State formula resounds throughout the land. No other solution has yet been seriously scrutinized to knock the seemingly everlasting conflict between the Jews and the Arabs, i.e. Palestinians in the Middle East on the head.

Personally, I am totally in favour of a 2-State solution BUT

the final draft has to guarantee that we are indeed talking about two different states for two different people. Right now it seems like certain international figures are endorsing a solution which will not lead to a stable atmosphere in the Middle East. To get to the point: Why should one country be 100% Palestinian, under the “supervision” of the PA-Fatah and/or the terrorist organization Hamas, while the other would be a multicultural state containing a huge minority (about one-fourth of total population) of people actually being granted their independent state in the 2-State solution framework? The question to be discussed remains: What will be a righteous “division” between the two different people, the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs, which in the long run will purge the state of war in the region?

To tell you the truth, I don’t even believe that this is the main problem. Let’s face it: The main obstacle to peace in the Middle East is nothing else than the Palestinian and Arab countries’ non-recognition of the Jewish nation’s democratic and sovereign state-existence in the Middle East. Nothing more, nothing less.

Unfortunately the Palestinians will continue to deny Israel its right of existence and keep the “armed struggle” alive, as was put bluntly during today’s 6th Fatah general assembly in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Out of an article published on Aug 4, 2009 in the Jerusalem Post :  Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub said his organization will never abandon the option of armed struggle. “Resistance was and is a tactical and strategic option of the struggle are part of Fatah’s policy” which Israel must acknowledge, he said. Former terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi, an Al Aksa Martyrs’ Brigade senior official who was released from prison in return for a pledge not to engage in terror activities, said Israel has no willingness for peace and that the Palestinians must ready themselves for the possibility that “it is war that Israel wants, and not peace.”

According to the Palestinians and certain Western politicians Israel has to freeze its settlement construction, acknowledge East-Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state, support the Palestinian security forces and economy, assist Palestinian refugees from the surrounding countries to move to the future Palestinian state etc etc etc.

What are the Palestinians, i.e. the Arabs actually asked to do in order to show some willingness to achieve peace in the Middle East???