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| One of the Best
Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. |  The Two-State Solution Has Failed
by JINSA Reports
At its theoretical best, it was never two states for two people. It could have been four states - Jordan, the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza - for two-and-a-half-and-a-half people: Israelis in Israel; Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jordan; and the two halves being Arabs in Israel and Bedouins in Jordan. At its worst, it is two states - Jordan and Israel - with enclaves of irredentist Palestinians supported by Iran, Syria, Venezuela and Cuba eating at their sides. And always, there are hundreds of thousands of original refugees and their descendants festering in third countries - Lebanon, Syria and Egypt - unable to go where they want, and unwilling to go where they can.
At their theoretical best, the Palestinians could have taken up President Bush's conditions for American political support of their independence:
Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership, so that a Palestinian state can be born. I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror. I call upon them to build a practicing democracy based on tolerance and liberty. If the Palestinian people actively pursue these goals, America and the world will actively support their efforts. That was very theoretical - lyrical, but theoretical. The old, terrorist-dominated Palestinian leadership wasn't interested in ceding authority to young technocrats, or interested in tolerance of either Jews or independent-minded Palestinians. It wasn't interested in liberty or practicing anything. Each gift or concession Fatah and Hamas received from Israel or the international community was turned to the furtherance of violence and the veneration of death and destruction. Continue Reading>> | | One that calls for a Response
Each week we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  Former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and now member of the Likud party, Moshe Yaalon said: "From the dawn of Zionism until this day, the source of all terrorist attacks has been the refusal of the Arab world to recognize Israel's existence. Until this changes, we will remain the target of violent terrorist activity. The '67 borders are not a solution to rocket attacks, suicide bombs or more conventional forms of warfare. The two-state solution has failed and to my mind is now irrelevant. Even before the [war with] Hamas, a two-state solution was a mistaken fantasy—now it's even more irrelevant."
God says: "I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run." ... "If my people would but listen to me, if Israel would follow my ways, how quickly would I subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!" (Exodus 3:27; Psalm 81:13-14).
The Jerusalem Connection says: After the recent confrontation with Hamas, Senator George Mitchell's efforts notwithstanding, it appears increasing numbers of Israelis are questioning the validity and viability of a Palestinian state. Not only does it defy common sense, but it defies the decrees of the Almighty. The pathological hatred of Arab/Muslims for the Jews, intensified by the grotesque death wish of Palestinian Jihadists, precludes any realistic possibility of two states living side-by-side in peace -- it is a delusion based on fantasy. For a realistic, common sense approach to peace in the Middle East, please review our own, The Jerusalem Connection Peace Plan.
|  Video: Questions About America's Role in a Palestinian State
This is the latest video from Michael Fenenbock, whose group “The 18” is adamantly opposed to the creation of a Palestinian terror state on Israel’s border. Watch Video | 
As a result of Israel’s recent encounter with Hamas, it is timely and appropriate to consider a new, common sense approach to the Two State Solution. To that end, The Jerusalem Connection offers the following basic principles of a peace plan.
The Jerusalem Connection Peace Plan is based on a Christian Zionist perspective. If there is to be any hope of success, we are convinced there are aspects, until now absent from past peace plans, which must be reflected in any peace plan of the future. Take time to read The Jerusalem Connection Peace Plan and consider sharing it with your pastor, rabbi, congress person, senator, or local media. http://support.tjci.org/peace_plan | | The Jerusalem Connection International
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