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Ultior wrote:

Political Question of the Week

The Israeli-Arab Conflict: Who do you support? Do you believe there is a solution to the seemingly endless cycle of violence in the Levant? Should Palestine be a state?

(Note: If this is annoying I will stop. I just like to hear different opinions on issues.)

Ideally the people of Israel and Palestine could live together in peace within one state. However, it is a very unlikely solution to the situation since the tensions between the Jews and Palestinians are too high to accommodate development of a healthy democratic and secular society. A huge issue is that religious extremism is gaining support on both sides which in turn will increase the Jewish settlement efforts on the West Bank which will increase the number of terror attacks on the Jewish population. In the words of John Kerry "Israel can be democratic or Jewish, it can't be both". Either Israel has to renounce its status as a Jewish state and give full political and civil rights to the Palestinians or it will have to withdraw from Palestinian soil.