I agree that a two state solution is not possible. In an ideal world, the solution would be a single secular state, with equal rights to all its citizens regardless of ethnicity or religion, and democratic elections. Since the Palestinians are majority, their representatives would soon find their way to positions of power (assuming there's no rigging). The name of the country, the official language and even the flag would need to be changed too. Basically, the new state of 'Israel-Palestine' or 'Palestine-Israel' would no longer be a 'Jewish state'. Of course, that is never going to happen because the Zionists would not allow it. Their plan was always to have the whole land for themselves for a Jewish state.
While thinking about this:
Possibly smart move by Trump on recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital. Every US president has the 'duty' to try and solve the 'Israeli-Palestinian' conflict. Every US president to date has done squat in that regard, usually due to Israeli blocking. The one thing the Israelis have always avoided like the plague is coming to the negotiating table. Life is easier for Israeli politicians when they have an intractable *foreign* enemy that 'does not recognize Israel's right to exist'.
At this point a two state solution is obviously not an option. So one state it is. This may be Trump's angle. Make the first step towards giving the Israelis what they have always claimed they wanted, a state of their own. BUT, it will obviously include the Palestinians, as officially equal citizens.
After all, Israel claims to be the only [Westernized] democracy in the Middle East and Israel would be naturally required to treat all of its citizens equally, and it will have a vested interest in doing so, because a sovereign state in conflict with its own citizens does not look good to the 'international community', does not encourage foreign investment, and makes life hard for Israeli Jews and Palestinians alike.
and this:
I think that Trump has just signed Israel's death warrant.
I happened to come across a FB post of an acquaintance of mine which I found interesting. (Bear in mind that the poster is anti-Trump):
On Trump and Jerusalem: I won't repeat the obvious about what a catastrophic decision this is, but there is another point to be made here as well that points to one a most ironic of unintended consequences: By effectively killing any possibility of a two-state solution, Drumpf and Netanyahu may have inadvertently signalled the death-knell of the Israeli state they wish to triumphally secure.
In the face of the impossibility of a separate Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, the Palestinians may well now shift their tactics to the pursuit of equal rights within a single Israeli state in which non-Jews will be the majority, thus robbing Israel of its claims to exceptionalism by virtue of its predominantly Jewish character and conclusively rendering it a multi-ethnic state where no section of the population is able to exercise conclusive control. The only alternative is an Apartheid-style regime that will make Israel even more of an international pariah that it already is, and may actually serve to hasten then end of the Israel that's existed since 1948. Somehow, I suspect that this is not what either Drumpf, Netanyahu and their lunatic ilk intended.
Is it what I want? Of course not, I would like to see an equitable and just two-state solution. But I suspect that if any of this does come to pass then it will be a textbook example of reaping what you sow.
Personally, I find it hard to believe that Trump thought about this beforehand for the eventual benefit of the Palestinians - especially with that son-in-law of his whispering on his ear. But regardless of whether he did or not, I have no doubt that the Palestinian population that Israel assimilates will be subject to an apartheid system at best (but it could be worse - when have Zionists been shy about violating human rights?).
And then I thought that if the scenario this person describes above comes to pass, then after a few years or decades the project of a 'Jewish state' would be effectively destroyed by both internal and external pressure. Kind of what happened in South Africa. Of course that would be a good thing, but it would still come at a very high cost of human suffering and only after considerable time.
If that happens, people could say that Israel was indeed 'destroyed', and I wondered if perhaps that was what the Cs were referring to in their prediction. Not a destruction with nuclear bombs or natural catastrophes as we could have imagined, but through internal social and political disintegration due to its own evil practices. On the other hand, the Cs also said that the plan was "war in Palestine" and the elimination of carriers of a Semitic gene, so that sounds quite explicitly like bloodbaths may not be avoided. There is also the fact that the whole of the Arab world is already mad at Trump's decision, so that may be a factor too.
:/
