{"id":5839,"date":"2011-09-26T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T08:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2012-12-11T18:51:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T17:51:52","slug":"in-favor-or-against-the-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5839","title":{"rendered":"In favor or against the Palestinian State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post_content_10681564342\">\n<p>As a Jew I want to see a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/State_of_Palestine\">Palestinian state<\/a>. I just don\u2019t know how to guarantee that this state will not be Hamas controlled and focused not on its own success but the destruction of Israel. Gaza has been a terrible example of what may happen in all of Palestine. And at the same time I think the Israelis are so in the wrong for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/09\/23\/us-palestinians-israel-un-idUSTRE78H28J20110923\">allowing more settlements<\/a>. Having said this, if those people are fanatics who want to be in Palestine I think the Palestinians should keep them and tax them. The GDP of the 300K Israeli settlers may be as high as that of the millions of Palestinians. Why chase them away?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5839\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Jew I want to see a Palestinian state. I just don\u2019t know how to guarantee that this state will not be Hamas controlled and focused not on its own success but the destruction of Israel. Gaza has been a terrible example of what may happen in all of Palestine. And at the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-mv","tag-israel-palestine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Site Default\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5839\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky in English\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In favor or against the Palestinian State? 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