Israeli Scholar: Only Israel Should Exist ‘West of River’ By Courtney Coren
http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/614732
Contrary to the two-state solution, which splits Israel between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Israeli scholar Mordechai Nisan proposes that the land west of the Jordan River should be granted to Israel alone.
“It became conventional and universally acceptable that there should be a Palestinian state next to Israel, west of the Jordan River,” Nisan, retired lecturer in Middle East Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told John Bachman and Miranda Khan on “America’s Forum” on Newsmax TV.
“But a Palestinian state hasn’t surfaced and the reasons for that are many,” he said.
There is “a grave incompatibility between what Israel needs for its own well being and national military integrity, its right to settlements in the land of Israel, and what the Palestinians demand, which is a Palestinian state emptied of any Jews and a Palestinian state, which is not ready to recognize Israel as a Jewish state at all,” he contends.
“Therefore, it’s not surprising that after 20 years, no agreement has been reached,” he added.
Nisan’s most recent book is “Only Israel West of the River: The Jewish State & the Palestinian Question.”
“My book proposes a different way of looking at the problem and the different solution and it is based on the idea that only Israel west of the river, meaning that there should only be one state west of the Jordan River, which is the state of Israel,” the Israeli scholar explained.
“That is a symbol of the historical biblical rite of the Jewish people to their homeland to which they returned in large numbers over the last 100 years,” he said.
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