Eric L. Rozenman

About the author: Eric L. Rozenman is the former executive editor of International Jewish Monthly.

The two-state solution advocated by the United States to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which both Israel and Palestine would have sovereign, independent states, is seriously flawed. It assumes that the two states would be willing to recognize and accept the existence of the other, when it is uncertain that this is possible. Proposal of the two-state solution seems only to promote Palestinian nationalism and thereby to fan the flames of Palestinian terror. A strong Israeli state, large enough to be defensible, is required. Otherwise, the Jewish population in the Middle East will find itself at the whims of the Arab states. The Palestinians should be absorbed into one of the existing...