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$\"\"$ <\/a>I think Thomas Friedman, who is Jewish, is one of the best American journalists. And he usually gets it right about all-things-Israel. Two days ago, he sounded off about U.S. President Trump\u2019s inauguration Monday concerning the removal of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem. He says Trump was a \u201csucker\u201d for doing this. He alleges that Trump did not make \u201cthe art of the deal\u201d\u2013the title of Trump\u2019s book\u2013but \u201cthe art of the give-away.\u201d Friedman concedes that Trump supporters are right, that he kept his presidential campaign promise to do this if he became president. But Friedman claims it was a \u201cstupid\u201d promise. I totally agree to all of this.<\/p>\n

Palestinians, the U.S., and the international community through the decades have rightly demanded that Israel stop Jewish settlements in the West Bank in order to keep the peace process going. Over the years, the U.N. General Assembly has passed many resolutions to this effect. But Israel has remained intransigent about it, usually looking the other way as Jews created new West Bank settlements and continued to build up existing ones. Only one U.S. president, President George H. W. Bush, once threatened to withhold U.S. foreign aid funds to Israel\u2013which was always a hefty $3 B annually\u2013if it did not stop the settlements. Israel merely stopped them temporarily.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>But, as those who read my blog should know, I\u2019m divided on this issue about the West Bank for Palestinians. On the one hand, I believe Israel has been wrong by failing to operate in good faith as a partner in the peace process. On the other hand, I believe the traditional two-state solution\u2013which is a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip\u2013is not a good solution.<\/p>\n

Now, I do believe that a two-state solution is the only way to solve this problem. But I think the powers-that-be should explore other two-state solutions, such as mine. (Ha!) Seriously, see my book, Palestine Is Coming: The Revival of Ancient Philistia<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s in the Bible. And since this book was published, in 1990, events have been moving in the direction of what I claim the Bible predicts. It\u2019s been 70 years, now, that Palestinians have been demanding the West Bank and Gaza Strip for a sovereign, Palestinian state. Yet Palestinians are now farther away from this happening than throughout any time during this 70 years. It\u2019s time to consider another two-state solution. But for me, it\u2019s always been time during these 70 years.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"