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Palestine

One state, two state, no state, or...?

Posted on Thursday January 29, 2009

Rumblings from the Arab world recently indicated that a solution for peace would not remain on the table for ever. Bob Simon reports in a 60 Minutes segment on the questions whether peace is possible. Mr. Simon notes:

Demographers predict that within ten years Arabs will out number Jews in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Without a separate Palestinian state the Israelis would have three options, none of them good. They could try ethnic cleansing, drive the Palestinians out of the West Bank. Or they could give the Palestinians the vote, that would be the democratic option but it would mean the end of the Jewish state. Or they could try apartheid – have the minority Israelis rule the majority Palestinians, but apartheid regimes don’t have a very long life.

Watch Bob Simon’s 60 Minutes segment, “Is Peace Out of Reach?” at cbsnews.com.