From: AICE To: [email protected] Subject: AICE Update: Will a Palestinian state be democratic? Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:10:53 +0000 yr The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise ewt 23143 $42,424, E-Newsletter Jewish Virtual PAPAPAPAPAPA IN THIS ISSUE Myths 8, Facts: Exclusive Mitchell Bard in The Times of Israel Podcast 68 Sentences January 18, 2017 Myths & Facts: Online Exclusive Will a Palestinian state be democratic? One of the assumptions of supporters of the two- state solution in the West is that a Palestinian state will be democratic. Given that no democratic Arab states exist in the Middle East; it is illogical to believe a Palestinian state would be any different. All evidence to this point suggests that a Palestinian state would be yet another autocratic one that denies its people human and civil rights Americans take for granted. Worse, it is likely a Palestinian state will become an autocratic theocracy similar to Saudi Arabia or another radical Islamic regime modeled after Iran. _Myths & Facts: 2012 Click Here to Continue Reading The Times of Israel There Was Never a Two-State Solution, It's Time to Move On The answer to the question of how to resolve the conflicting claims over Palestine has been to partition Palestine into two states. This assumes, however, that the parties only have a dispute over land, but this has never been the case. The conflict has always had political, religious, historical, EFTA00641651