Roger Cohen wrote a column in NYT” A Time For Traitors” suggesting that Israel needs a Traitor to break the impasse on Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A comment below by a reader of NYT is the best analysis I have read on the conflict. It is worth reading.( F. Sheikh)
“Let’s just say the obvious: The two-state outcome is dead. It is D-E-A-D. There is no Israeli government, left, right, or center, that has ever been willing to accept full Palestinian sovereignty (with the full meaning of the word) west of the Jordan River. And there is no nation on earth, Palestinians included, who will accept less freedoms for itself than that taken for granted by the rest of humanity.
The Swiss cheese-like geography of Jewish-only colonies in the West Bank, as well as the inhumane nature of Israel’s control over Palestinian lives (let alone the Orwellian language used to justify the subjugation and murder of Palestinians) is all the evidence one needs that there is no “solution” that involves two independent states.
The only “divorce” that is real here is the divorce from reality that proponents of the two-state outcome live by. The truth is that when the “security” of a state is threatened by non-Jewish babies, that speaks volumes about the rotten nature of that state. The only thing one needs to remember about Israel is this: Equal rights for all is a threat to Israel. Let me type that again: Equal rights for all is a threat to Israel. Only once this fact sinks in will you realize the idea of an imposed Jewish State of Israel was *never* sustainable in the long run. In the history of the world, equal rights for all always triumphs, and triumph here it will despite a forceful decades-long Israeli PR campaign to avoid it.”
I think you mean “Roger Cohen,” not “Richard Cohen.” Yes, it is amazing how bold and honest these writers are, but the Israeli government does not listen.