Doubting the Two-State “Solution”

by Joseph S Spoerl (February 2013)

Russia in 1917 and Germany in 1933, like the Gaza Strip in 2007, provide cautionary examples of how ruthless, disciplined, armed minority parties can seize control of governments. The same could easily happen in the West Bank without a strong Israeli security presence there.

Looking beyond Egypt to other neighbors of Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood also is the most powerful opposition party in Jordan³⁰ and has deep historical roots in Sunni-majority Syria,³¹ where the minority Alawite regime is now on the brink of collapse. It is entirely possible that the Muslim Brotherhood could end up controlling both Jordan and Syria. And of course, the genocidal Jew-haters of Hezbollah are firmly in control of Lebanon.

[1] Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell, Hamas (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2010), p. 259.

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3671.htm

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2676.htm

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http://www.memri.org/report/en/print4035.htm.

[10] Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, The Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. Nuh Ha Mim Keller rev. ed. (Beltsville MD: Amana Publications, 1994), p. 601.

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http://www.newenglishreview.org/Joseph_S._Spoerl/The_World_View_of_Hasan_al-Banna_and_the_Muslim_Brotherhood/

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http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/3702.htm</a>; Middle East Media Research Institute, Clip No. 3614, Oct. 19, 2012, “Egyptian President Morsi Joins Preacher in Prayer for Destruction and Dispersal of the Jews,” http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3614.htm.

http://www.pewglobal.org/2011/04/25/egyptians-embrace-revolt-leaders-religious-parties-and-military-as-well/

http://www.pewglobal.org/2011/07/21/muslim-western-tensions-persist/

http://www.onislam.net/english/ask-the-scholar/international-relations-and-jihad/jihad-rulings-and-regulations/174454.html

[23] Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, The Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications, 1994), pp. 109, 595.

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[26] Milton-Edwards and Farrell, Hamas, pp. 246, 283, 289.

[27] Ibid., p. 283.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3281/west-bank-islamic-emirate

[29] Quoted in Efraim Karsh, Palestine Betrayed (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010), p. 246.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3159/abbas-peace.

[33] Milton-Edwards and Farrell, Hamas, p. 291

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/12/13/after_abbas

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/07/26/Poll-Arabs-reject-two-state-solution/UPI-61891311710436/ .

[37] Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), p. 756. Today, according to the UN, there are five million Palestinian refugees, descendants of the original 700,000 or so who fled Palestine in 1947-8: http://www.unrwa.org/etemplate.php?id=86

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3689.htm</a>; also Mosab Hassan Yousef, Son of Hamas (N.P.: Tyndale House Publishers, 2010), p. 127.

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/438.htm. Also Middle East Media Research Institute, Special Dispatch No. 5084, Dec. 7, 2012, “Fatah Central Committee Member Jibril Rajoub: Fatah Will Not Lay Down Its Swords Until the Refugees Return, Resistance Is Its Strategic Choice,” http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3663.htm.