Bizonia Not Yet Ruled Out!

I think two-states is impossible. It's seeming like everyone in Israel agrees. Only Palestinians, and only Palestinians on the US payroll seem to doubt this. But why not begin preparing for the possibility that somehow or other this dream of two states will not happen?

Two states remains a perfectly viable solution of the Palestine Puzzle, as long as one understands "two states" in a hard-nosed and mushfree Wohlstetteter-Rabbîn-‘Inbar [*] kind of way:

[Prof. ‘Inbar] recalled that he had published a book about Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister who concluded the Oslo Agreement with Yasser Arafat’s PLO back in 1993, and said, “Even Rabin’s formula was always ‘land for security’… What Rabin wanted was a tyrant in power in Palestine. But he couldn’t get an effective one.”

Just so. BINGO! Give that gentleman a cigar, Mr. Bones!

Find and install an effective tyrant, and -- hey, presto! there you are. You can have your two states and you can even have one of them be prescriptively Zionistical and democratic (pretty much) simultaneously -- PROVIDED that the other one is a competent dictatorship that can endure.

Empathy fans may not much care for the proviso, but there is no need to agree with them if they cannot get past reciting "Tyranny cannot possibly be competent or endure" as a supposedly self-evident proposition. At the mantra-recitation level, "Sure it can, look at Mubárak!" is response enough. AE calls the Cairo régime "a dictatorship," which is clearly correct, and who can doubt that stamina has been exhibited by it? What a pity for certain interested parties that the good general should not be a native and local of Palestine! (Perhaps there is a cousin or nephew?)

It is plain from the account of the interview that Prof. ‘Inbar thinks that he and M. de Nétanyahou and le parti Lîkoud in general are sitting in the catbird seat at the moment. Not so clear is how he supposes that they will stay there for the next couple of centuries. Still, even an amateur can guess. The easiest and most eligible guess, based on the words here attributed to him, is that Prof. ‘Inbar supposes that sooner or later the strongman candidate that the late Gen. Rabbîn so regrettably failed to discover will turn up and be installed.

Something has to turn up, anyway, if that zillion-times reiterated dichotomy of "Either not a proper Jewish State® or not a proper democracy" is to be evaded. Messrs. les lîkoudiens show every sign of thinking that it can be evaded: could there be something that they know and we kibitzers have overlooked?

Happy days.

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[*] Is this the same way as that of our holy Homeland’s own Ambassador J. J. Kirkpatrick?

Not quite, because unless I misremember, the GOP neocomradess recommended her ‘authoritarians’ on a temporary basis. Of course as a diplomatic term of art in a suitable context, ‘temporary’ could mean, say, 417 years and eight months, but JJK does seem to have expected her clients, most Latin American, to succumb to liberalism and democracy reasonably quickly.

"Believing they could be led into democracy by example," say the wikipædiatricians , though without specifying any time frame.

(( In the hypothetical two-state Palestine, there would presumably be no pernicious ‘example’ anywhere in the vicinity near enough to become a seriously destabilizing -- that is to say, deauthoritarianizing or tyrannicidal -- factor. But God knows best. ))