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It’s a very simple idea. When Abbas goes before the UN, he shouldn’t ask for recognition of an independent state. Instead, he should say the following: “Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza 45 years ago, and shows no interest in letting go of the West Bank, in particular. We, the Palestinian people, recognize two things: The first is that we are not strong enough to push the Israelis out. Armed resistance is a path to nowhere. The second is that the occupation is permanent. The Israelis are here to stay. So we are giving up our demand for independence. Instead, we are simply asking for the vote. Israel rules our lives. We should be allowed to help pick Israel’s rulers
highlight the plight, oppression, and inequality of Palestinians.
It seems like your missing the point of the article...
Originally posted by PatrickGarrow17
Here's a pretty shrewd article from Bloomberg, that proposes the best strategy I have heard for Gaza..
How Palestinians Can Finally Achieve Independence
Israel has occasionally shown an interest in freeing Gaza and the West Bank, which came into its possession in 1967
Hamas’s arms supplier, Iran, is working toward nuclear-weapons capability
The only country that can grant the Palestinians statehood in Gaza and the West Bank is Israel.
There is, however, a strategy the Palestinians could implement immediately that would help move them toward independence: They could give up their dream of independence.
Such a demand would also force Israel into an untenable position; if it accedes to such a demand, it would very quickly cease to be the world’s only Jewish-majority state, and instead become the world’s 23rd Arab-majority state. If it were to refuse this demand, Israel would very quickly be painted by former friends as an apartheid state.
israelipalestinian.procon.org/view.source.php?sourceID=011701
"...Palestine is too small, the issue of the refugees too great, the topographic and demographic cleansing that has occurred has been too extensive. The building of the wall, the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem, the building of the settlements, which are really cities, have all been too extensive to make the separation of this small piece of land into two viable states realistic... When Mandela was asked by the Boers at the end of Apartheid if they could have the Orange Free State as a white state, he said that he didn’t believe in white states or black states, only democratic states. One man, one woman, one vote, one government and everyone equal under the law. And if I believe that in South Africa, why should I change it for Palestine?... One state between the river and the sea is by far the best solution."