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Arab-fomented violence

Regarding “Bahraini FM: Palestinian statehood bedrock of Abraham Accords’ success” (December 5): A just solution for the Palestinians can arise only when their leaders give up on their dream of two states being a Palestinian state from which all Jews have been banished and a Muslim-majority Israel populated by millions of people who claim descent from Arabs who fled (Arab-fomented and -initiated) violence generations ago.

The sheer numbers (some six million on UNRWA rolls), and the fact that these “Palestine refugees” have grown up seeing Palestinians honored and rewarded for murdering Jews would mean that no Jew would be safe if Israel capitulated to demands for the “refugees” to be given the homes they claim their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on, lost when Israel was reborn in the Jews’ ancestral homeland.

The true road to two states for two peoples (a Palestinian state co-existing, peacefully, with the nation-state of the Jews) requires that Palestinian leaders stop working to destroy the Jewish state via violence and delegitimization in international fora. Palestinian leaders need to begin building the infrastructure needed by a viable state, to be constructed in Gaza and Areas A and B of Judea and Samaria.

The leaders would have to enter into negotiations with Israel, as the Oslo Accords required, so that both states would have recognized and secure borders. Arab states, whether in the Abraham Accords or not, could participate in bringing the plan to fruition, by offering to grant citizenship in their countries to Palestine refugees seeking to escape the UNRWA camps in which they have been trapped for generations. Palestinian leaders should also offer citizenship in the future Palestinian state to those “refugees” who would like to help build the new country.

Arab states could also offer donations to fund the building of the first-ever-to-exist Arab state of Palestine, with the work being carefully supervised to ensure that the money is, indeed, used to build a Palestinian state, not to destroy the Jewish state or enrich the coffers of corrupt governments.

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