AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:Really? Is that what this war is all about?
Every year in New York City, about 150 world leaders attend the United Nations General Assembly, known as U-N-G-A or UNGA. One leader will be notably absent at the meeting this month - the president of the Palestinian Authority, the party in charge of roughly 40% of the West Bank. The U.S. has blocked him and 80 other Palestinian officials by revoking their visas, a decision the U.N. has opposed. ...And I think for those who - you know, if you believe in the idea of the Jewish people and the Palestinian people, you know, kind of equally deserving the same levels of freedom, security and prosperity, and you believe in the idea of a two-state solution where the West Bank and Gaza would be integrated as a Palestinian state, eventually, it's really not a good sign for that.
RASCOE: Former U.S. special representative for Palestinian Affairs, Hady Amr, thank you so much for joining us.
I thought that the Palestinian Arabs wanted independence and autonomy for the West Bank.
Nope, not at all. They want a Jew-free state that somehow has prosperity equal to what the Jews have created in Israel.
Not all of them. This is the "two-state" view. Many others want a "River to the Sea" solution where Arabs control the entire area, and Jews are either expelled or subordinated to Arabs.
I have wondered why the Palestinian Arabs have always rejected two-state proposals. It is because they would not have prosperity equal to the Jews in Israel.
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I don't think the speaker was as clear as he would have liked to be. No doubt prosperity is a goal but I doubt that prosperity equal to Israelis is realistic. As for the two state solution, I am afraid that has been dead for quite a while.
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