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| Name: | Moshe Yaalon | |||||||||
| Title: | Lieutenant-General and former Chief-of-Staff of the Israel Defense Force | |||||||||
| Position: | Con Two-State Solution to the question "What are the solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?" | |||||||||
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"The paradigm of the Two States will not bring about stability. No!... (The Two-State solution) is not relevant. Not relevant... (The Palestinian state) will undermine the State of Israel. From there, the confrontation will go on.
The State of Israel is ready to give the Palestinians an independent Palestinian state, but the Palestinians are not ready to give us an independent Jewish state... Every agreement you make will be the starting point of the next irredenta. The next conflict. The next war. The establishment of a Palestinian state will lead at some stage to war. Such a war can be dangerous to the State of Israel. The idea that it is possible to set up a Palestinian state by 2008 and to achieve stability is disconnected from reality and dangerous... Bush's vision is disconnected from reality." Quoted in article by Israeli journalist Uri Avnery titled "The Bogyman" May 3, 2005 | |||||||||
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ExpertsMembers of Congress, Ambassadors, Counsul Generals, heads of government, members of legislative bodies, and Ph.D.'s with significant involvement in, or related to, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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