alright, alright - so he had no idea what he was talking about.

again, though - it would be nice if he meant what he said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-ambassador-donald-trump-two-state-solution-contradicts-israel-palestine-conflict-latest-a7584386.html

listen: people clinging to this idea of a two-state solution are living in a complete fantasy reality. you've seen the maps demonstrating settlement expansion. there is absolutely nothing left. if you think the israelis are ever going to withdraw...

so, this is not a real option. it's just a ploy the israelis use to avoid real negotiations. it will eventually be discarded as useless; my reaction was merely premature - what i thought had finally happened is what is going to eventually happen, and probably within the next 4-8 years. we're on the cusp of a shift, here. the viability of a palestinian state is long dead, and a generational shift will end the delusion.

even if a second state is somehow arrived at, it will merely continue the status quo. two states are not a solution, they are just a way to further the conflict. a palestinian state will never accept israel, and an israeli state will never end the occupation. it's not an end to anything.

to solve problems, you must get to root causes, and two-states doesn't even get close to doing that.

the actual options in front of us are as follows:

1) the israelis can succeed in ethnically cleansing the region of muslims, which is what they are currently planning around and what will probably actually happen. they've dropped mixed signals: while they used to view the final solution as expulsion, they seem to be open to more grisly approaches, nowadays.

2) or they can give up and succumb to the demographic problem. everybody knows that this is the inevitable result, should expulsion not happen.

the existential reality in front of the israelis makes the future clear: a massacre is waiting to happen. the longer the palestinians pretend that a separate state is viable, the stronger the inevitability becomes.

...and if you're offended, you're clueless, and nobody should give a fuck. stop whining and go educate yourself on the situation.