In the long run, demography is destiny.
If there are no peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians for anindependent Palestinian state, war next year is inevitable.
SoKing Abdullah II of Jordan has told the London Times: “If we delay ourpeace negotiations, then there is going to be another conflict betweenArabs or Muslims and Israel in the next 12 to 18 months.”
Whetherthe king’s timetable is correct, endless cold war, erupting into hotwars, seems the fate of Israel if “Bibi” Netanyahu holds to his pledgenever to allow a Palestinian state on the West Bank.For, as John Mearsheimer, author of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. ForeignPolicy,” writes in the May 18 American Conservative, if there is noPalestinian state, there are only three possible alternatives.
Allinvolve “creating a ‘greater Israel’ … that effectively controls theWest Bank and Gaza, or all of what was once called MandatoryPalestine.”
What are Bibi’s three remaining options?
Thefirst is annexation of the West Bank. But this would bring 2.4 millionPalestinians into Israel, giving her a population 40 percent Arab. Witha higher birth rate, Palestinians would soon outnumber Jews and vote toabolish the Jewish state, thus creating a bi-national state.
That would mean the end of the Zionist dream.