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Excerpt featuring Aziz Abu Sarah: “If you’ve tried to do something for 20 years and it doesn’t work, it’s quite stupid to try it over and over,” said Aziz Abu-Sarah. “For Palestinians it’s obvious that Israelis are not going to make those decisions, so Palestinians need to look not at what Israel does but at what we can do to make a difference. … If we wait for Israel to wake up one day and decide to give us a state and end the occupation – they might not do that.” Likewise, he said, “It doesn’t work to leave it only in U.S. hands.”
If a two-state solution is abandoned, he added, “we will be struggling for one state and equal rights.”
This, Clark had said earlier, would ultimately spell the end of the Jewish state: “The only way to preserve Israel is to create Palestine.”
“I don’t think Israelis today realize what we’re giving up in order to maintain the occupation,” Friedman said, stressing that the failure of a two-state solution would be “not a solution but an outcome.”
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