"There is only one circumstance in which it is a tragedy to constitute a minority; it is the case of the people which is only a minority everywhere and always a minority, dispersed among alien races, with no corner of the earth to call its own, and no home in which to find refuge. Such is not the position of the Arabs."
The Arabs have an obligation to realize that in this specific territory is the one place in the Middle East where their claims are unequal to those of the Jews.For sure, civic discrimination of the Arab minority cannot be tolerated and must be removed. One-state, however, is not bi-nationalism, to be clear. On the other hand, a two-state solution in the territory west of the Jordan River, which means two Arab states in the former area of the Mandate as opposed to one Jewish state in but 23% in the original boundaries, will only subject Israel to an intolerable security threat as well as rewarding Arab aggression. Israel cannot survive alongside an independent Arab Palestine state. It cannot work.(This is an expanded version of an “Analysis” contribution to The Jewish Chronicle.)