His point is that
Israelis and Palestinians need a new peace paradigm.
Why?
...final-status talks based on the Oslo accords have run their course and failed.
He does argue that
The conventional wisdom is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intransigent behavior has driven the Palestinians to take the international track. But that hardly offers a complete explanation for this revolution in the Palestinian approach.
After all,
P.L.O. Chairman Mahmoud Abbas...confronted the most far-reaching Israeli peace proposal yet offered concerning refugees and holy places, yet he rejected it because it was still far from his and his constituents’ core demands on these issues.
And the 'problem' is that
...both sides’ deeper historical narratives are the real reason for 18 years of failed efforts. As Israelis understand it, the Palestinian demand that Israel recognize the right of Palestinian refugees to return requires a tacit acknowledgement that the state of Israel was “born in sin” in 1948. And the Palestinian assertion that “there never was a temple on the Temple Mount,” and that therefore Israel has no inherent rights there, is perceived as a denial of Israel’s national and historical roots.
In addition,
...it is Abbas’ intransigence on a full final status package, no less than Netanyahu’s, that has brought us to the United Nations.
And after all this build-up, Alpher's 'evenhandedness' fails him:
Yet here the two part company: Abbas appears genuinely to want progress toward a viable two-state solution, while Netanyahu’s ideology and the composition of his coalition signal intransigence.
Abbas has no ideology?
He "will be making the substantive concessions that his principles and his constituents do not allow him to make in bilateral talks"?
Alpher thinks it "Better to adopt the state-to-state paradigm while Oslo autonomy still offers a modicum of stability on the ground".
He thinks
...the primary international challenge of the months following the U.N. drama will be to forge a new post-Oslo state-to-state paradigm, then deliver it to the two parties.
If a 'state of Palestine' is declared and somehow recognized in any fashion, Hamas will become the dominant political, military and administrative force leading to increased terror, more Iranian-cum-Hezbollah involvment and pan-Middle East Muslim Brotherhood aggrandizement.
Alpher aiding Abbas is simply facilitating terror.
And he wants Israel to follow his folly.
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