ONE STATE; TWO STATE; & REALITY
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Daniel McGowan: One State; Two State; and Reality
September 2, 2010
by Gordon Duff
One State; Two State; and Reality
By Daniel McGowan, Professor Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Executive Director, Deir Yassin Remembered
The overwhelming desire within Israel, and more importantly within the United States, to divide Palestine into two states reflects a 130-year old dream to create a Jewish state in the Holy Land. Aside from the attractiveness or repulsiveness of such a dream, such a division flies in the face of reality or what might be called “facts on the ground.”
Within the current borders controlled by Israel (including pre-1967 Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights) there is in fact a single state. It has one electrical grid, one water system, o...
