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One State Not Two

I firmly believe that the geographic precincts of historical Palestine cannot be divided into two states. There can only be one. However, I do not advocate "throwing" anyone "into the sea," all I can hope for is that all Israelis accept that they cannot have an exclusive Jewish state/homeland over the entire territory of what they call Israel. They must learn to share. They should accept Christian and Muslim Palestinian Arabs as full and equal citizens in this state and let the democratic process take its course from there. That means counting all Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza as citizens of this single state, tearing down walls and taking responsibility for all those, living and dead, who were forced to flee their homes in 1948 and 1967. In short, give them a country again. If that means in ten or twenty years we see an Arab prime minister of Israel, so be it. If, like in South Africa, the colors of the national standard are changed, so be it. If a referen