Conclusion: A Comprehensive Resolution of the Palestinian Problem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
Israel's Arabs are part of the same thing – together with the Palestinians – and there is no use solving the Palestinian problem without solving the Israeli Arab problem. Returning to the 1967 borders will bring neither peace nor security, but will transfer the conflict into Kfar Saba and Raanana [towns inside Israel]. So when you try to solve the problem, you must solve the whole thing.
Avigdor Lieberman, foreign minister and deputy prime minister, 2009-presentThe main purpose of this book has been to draw attention to the escalating conflict within Israel between its Jewish majority and its Palestinian minority and to offer our ideas for how this conflict can be alleviated. This is not just an issue of domestic importance to Israel that threatens the country's internal stability and even its democratic regime. It is also an issue that is inextricably linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a conflict with massive regional and even global repercussions. We believe that the existence of a sizable Palestinian national minority within Israel has major implications for how the State of Israel should define itself and behave and for how the long-running conflict between Israel and the Palestinian nation should be resolved. Simply put, it means that it is highly problematic for the State of Israel to define itself as an exclusively Jewish state, and that it is wrong to believe that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians can be solved by the two-state solution alone, that is a Jewish state and a Palestinian state.
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- Israel’s PalestiniansThe Conflict Within, pp. 217 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011