Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "RATIONAL OPTIONS THAT CAN WORK AND THOSE THAT CANNOT —- THE 'PALESTINIAN' PROBLEM.
(İn contrast to solutions that will never work)
1)
FIRST, LET’S LOOK AT WHAT NEVER CAN WORK
Suggestions over the last 80 years have been made that just maybe a bi-national state could be a solution, and in more recent years, a so-called 2-state solution.
2)
I challenge anyone to show me where and how a bi-national state has ever been successful. It’s easy for me to make that challenge because the answer is simply. It has never worked. Sure, some of you will say 'Belgium', but that arrangement has been contentious at best,
3)
with two languages being the only significant difference between the two competing groups. Or, take a look at the former Yugoslavia states, where just using a different alphabet or having different religious traditions within Christianity can be enough to make a war over.
4)
Then maybe Lebanon? No — a state where everyone shares a language, but religion divides them. Its history has been one of conflict. In Israel, there would be several religions, several languages, and on top of that,
5)
one side (Arabs) that has taught its children that they must destroy and kill, the other side (Jews) as a religious imperative and a key to Paradise.
Then there are those who talk about taking a tiny land and drawing lines for a second state - a 2-state solution.
6)
One wonders why the world powers do not make the same demand in other parts of the world. Should there be a 2-state solution to Catalonia? How about a 2-state or multi state solution to the problems of Italy.
7)
Or what of a 2-state solution for areas of Ukraine where Russian ethnics dominate the vast majority of the population? Or what about a free Biafra in Africa separating from Nigeria where Igbos feel like persecuted second-class citizens?
8)
NO, The West only demands a 2-state solution when it comes to the Jews in the only Jewish homeland. Sort of a brush off by the West that simply wants to deal with the problem of Muslim potential violence in their own countries.
9)
The Gaza self-rule was put forward by the US, UK, and EU to be the experiment for this 2-state solution that could work - based on Jews withdrawing, and leaving Gaza on its own, with the West promising Israel that were the experiment not work to bring peace,
10)
Israel would never be asked to try a 2-state deal again. It seems someone lied. And they are still lying, as the current policies of France, the UK, and Germany prove.
11)
We all know what happened with Gaza as soon as the Jewish civilians and IDF left. Terrorists took over, and terrorism started rather quickly.
No, guys, something different needs to be considered. What can be proposed that actually has a chance of working and why?
12)
Yet listen to the Governments in Europe today - France, the UK, Germany, Denmark, Spain, and the Vatican, all still demanding that the Jews are the problem and if the Jews would only back off and allow a Palestine State, everything would be OK,
13)
until another massacre worse than October 7, but then, they would cry if Israel retaliated again.
In fact, my prediction is if Palestine were a State within 2 years, there would be mass invasions from Samaria toward central Israel,
14)
killing and raping in numbers that make October 7, 2023, look like a small nothing.
So real solutions need to be considered based on more than European ingrained bias against Jews.
15)
First, any solution with a chance of working has to include (1) the prospect of realistic gain for everyone. Show people how to benefit their lives, increase opportunity and living standards, and overall benefit the quality of life, and
16)
(2) change the religious-leftist ideology and mythology that looks at elimination of Israel and Jews as the solution to everything, and end the use of religious interpretation to make martyrdom a positive. If these two things are not done, there will be no solutions.
17)
So here’s two suggestions, assuming that the ideological-religious framework that excuses terrorism is removed by either ending the beliefs (unlikely) or by completely separating the peoples.
18)
(A). THE FIRST OPTION IS TO ESTABLISH A TWO-TIER SYSTEM, BASED ON ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY OVER ALL OF THE TERRITORY ALLOCATED TO A JEWISH REPUBLIC AT SAN REMO. One tier being National Identity of the entire territory, the second tier being local affairs.
19)
On the Issue of National Identity, there are two nations, according to many, and demands that Palestine Identity be respected. Fine.
20)
All Jews living between the River and the Sea, citizens of Israel (Western Palestine under the British Mandate) with exceptions for Non-Jews who are Israeli citizens.
21)
All Arabs (with exceptions) to be citizens of Jordan (Eastern Palestine under the British), as advocated by Winston Churchill MP and enacted into law by the Parliament in London in the 1920’s.
22)
The second tier, local government, handling local affairs, and many functions of government returned to the local level. Disarming of all paramilitary (terrorist) groups.
23)
This would solve the issues of self-determination, preservation of national identity, and regional security as well as provide opportunity.
Finally, no area should be excluded from Jewish residence. That means resettling the Gaza Strip with Jewish farms and cities.
24)
(B). The ABRAHAM ACCORDS AS FACILITATOR. Saudi Arabia joins the Abraham Accords, followed by Oman. The Saudis have a big problem - the need for a lot of foreign labor, both skilled and unskilled, from non-Arab cultures and non-Arabic speaking populations.
25)
The Saudi Government is seeing massive economic expansion and diversity and is held back by a lack of domestic population that can achieve it. Offer the Palestinians homes and jobs and citizenship, as Saudia is the origin of most of the Palestinians,
26)
who because of that origin share a religion and a language and a culture with Saudia, and they would provide a relatively educated, skilled population that is easily assimilated. Saudia could quickly absorb most of them -
27)
offering a much better life and opportunity to Palestinians that a tiny Palestine State would never be able to offer.
28)
(C). There is a place where a Palestinian State could be established if all other reasonable solutions are rejected. Birobidjan, an area that was designated as a Jewish autonomous region in the Soviet Union. All the Palestinians could be sent there.
29)
I see a bit of humor in having them go there to replace the Jews instead of their intention to replace the Jewish State. But, the fact is that Russia needs population, and can offer opportunities in that area that a Palestine State next to Israel never could, and
30)
frankly, the PALESTINE ARAB IDENTITY AS SEPARATE FROM ARAB IDENTITY, IN GENERAL, WAS DEVELOPED IN MOSCOW IN THE 1960’s before which Arabs in Palestine claimed they were not a separate people but rather an integral part of the Arab nation.
SO, GUYS, THAT’S THE CHOICE.
31)
Choose a solution that guarantees failure or choose one that opens the door to opportunity and peace. I happen to prefer offering people a way to have opportunity and peace simply because that is the only realistic way to have peace."
32)
@threadreaderapp unroll
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "James Carville suggested that the Democrats need to create a permanent majority, and to do that, they should add four new justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, and
1)
add guaranteed Democrat senators by creating states from Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
Here is my answer to Carville James. Right now, Republicans control all three branches of government.
2)
If you, James, are right that power should be made permanent by changing the system, then why should the Republicans not do, right now, what you suggest the Democrats do? Add four members to the Supreme Court and appoint four conservative-constitutionalists.
3)
Sabine Sterk wrote, "The refugee issue surrounding the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 is often presented as one-sided — w/ the focus solely on Palestinian Arab refugees. However, this omits a crucial part of the story: the Jewish refugees from Arab & Muslim countries 1)
who were forced to flee or were expelled from their ancient communities across the Middle East and North Africa.
Arab refugees from Israel ~ 600,000 - 750,000 1947–1949
Jewish refugees from Arab countries ~ 850,000 - 1,000,000 1948–1970s
2)
So in total numbers, more Jews were displaced from Arab countries than Arabs were displaced from Israel in 1948.
🕍 Jewish Refugees: From Which Countries?
Jews lived in the Middle East and North Africa for over 2,500 years, long before Islam existed or Arab empires rose.
3)
Multi-Millionaire Senator Elizabeth Warren (Pocahontas) who scammed her way up the ladder claiming to be a minority,
1)
has now announced she supports multi-millionaire Socialist and Islamist, antisemite Zohran Mamdani, following the endorsement of multi-millionaire Senator Bernie Sanders who became rich by scamming Election Financing rules,
2)
with Mamdani running a campaign based on lies and paid for by the Tides Foundation (Soros) and the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, both of which have supported Hamas.
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR MAKES THREATS, BUT PERHAPS HE SHOULD TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT TWO THINGS: (1). HOW MANY PROBLEMS HIS STATE HAS AND (2). WHETHER ANYONE ELSE OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA CARES WHAT HE THINKS.
1)
Some things people may not know. California is so Gerrymandered now, that while in 2024, 47% of the votes went to Republicans, only 13% of the Congressional Seats are Republican.
2)
But the bigger issues in California are a bit different because they have a governor that wants illegal migrants to bolster the population and even to vote - and to vote as they are told. Some of us may call that intentional and planned fraud against the USA."
3)
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "THE NEWS OUT OF TEXAS ABOUT REDISTRICTING IS INTERESTING. BUT DO AMERICANS REALLY KNOW WHAT “GERRYMANDERING” IS ABOUT?
A long time ago in Boston, there was a politician named Eldrige Gerry.
1)
He wanted to make sure his party won every election, so he ignored any formula that made geographical sense, and drew district lines to guarantee his party victories.
That is where the term Gerrymandering comes from.
2)
And, in most states in the USA, legislatures from time to time have drawn the lines of electoral districts to protect their political interests.
3)