As a follow-up to this article, I discuss my view of the Road Map.
“The road map, if it is fully implemented with U.S. pressure, is in fact, quite a reasonable way to bring about this disengagement. Perhaps the two-state solution it envisions is a neccesary interim step to allow the hatred and anger to die down and hope and reconciliation to grow. “Interim” is the operative word. In the long run a ‘Jewish state’ living side-by-side with a ‘Palestinian state’ will not be economically, politically or even morally viable. Eventually both sides will need to accept the obvious, and relinquish their separate ’states.’ Even from the very beginning, economic viability will require the two states to be so closely intertwined, they will be seperate in name only.”
