Settlement and Peace

At Camp David, Barak was willing to give up 98% of the West Bank for a Palestinian state, including East Jerusalem and all but the biggest settlement blocks, exchanging Israeli territory for these. Included were entire Jewish cities and suburbs, with tens of thousands of middle class homes - property valued at in the billions, if not the tens of billions.

The response was the 2nd Intifada.

Ariel Sharon, of all people, led the destruction of all Israeli settlements in Gaza, and the evacuation of their Jewish residents to Israel proper.

The response was nearly 5000 rockets, mortars, kidnappings, IEDs, snipers, civil war and the continual build of up a sophisticated terror infrastructure that is taking pointers from Hezbollah and aims to use Gaza as a launchpad for further attacks against Israel.

Mind you, the Gaza withdrawal was to be only the beginning. The Israeli government under Olmert was planning a broad based evacuation of all but the biggest Israeli settlement blocks behind the Security Barrier - a policy that would have effectively ethnically cleansed Jews from the West Bank. The Israeli left led this notion of "separation for a generation"; it is now dead.

Needless to say, given the Palestinian response in Gaza, no Israeli leader is going to place Israel's biggest population centers within range of Palestinian rockets and mortars based in the hills of Judea and Samaria. No one in Israel trusts the Palestinians anymore, not even the left.

The only way to end this war is to expand broad based and simultaneous Jewish settlement of the entire West Bank. Judea and Samaria have always been the heart of Israel, and they will thus remain.

Palestinians have no more right to a homogeneous apartheid homeland than Jews do. As you say, 1/3rd of the West Bank is now settled by Jews. All that's necessary is ink on paper.

One state. Stop fighting it.

Oh, and [Name], stop advocating the indiscriminate murder of Jews. This, as with the murder of any innocents, will not be tolerated in One State Israel. I know it's a change for you, but I believe you will be a better human being for it.

I take a three week break from Kabob - having personally witnessed [Name] running from the One State he preaches with his tail between his legs - only to find [Name] embroiled in a defense of his virulent, brutal anti-semitism. That's what happens when all you care about is scoring points.