Yet Another Non-published Letter to the Editor

To the Editor, the Times of London,

In his column, Hugo Rifkind writes, "you can be in favour of a two-state solution, or you can be in favour of expanding settlements. But not really both" ("Settlements are a step too far for many British Jews", 9 Sept). 

In a two-state solution, will Arab settlements be permitted to remain in Israel's territory, pre-1967 or otherwise? If so, why cannot Jewish settlements remain in a future 'Palestine'?  

Or are the proponents of a two-state solution in favor of creating a second Islamic Arab ethnostate in the region of historic Palestine, the other being Jordan, while insisting Israel not only accept a topographical strategic security threat but accept as well a 20+ percentage of its population being Arab and all that entails? 

Yisrael Medad, Shiloh

Israel

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