Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "The Two State Solution is Dead | HERE IS WHY" video.

@moosadiamond : It's a sad fact that MILLIONS of people have been displaced or suffered expulsion over the last 100 years, mostly due to new countries being formed. The biggest example is India-Pakistan, the forced population transfer in 1924 of 1.5 million Orthodox Greeks with Turkish Muslims is another, and the 800,000 Jews who fled or were expelled from Arab countries after the foundation of Israel. Do we hear from any of these people today? No. They've accepted their new countries and moved on with their lives. It's only the so-called 'Palestinians' who still get huge funding and publicity. A humane solution must be found, but not at the expense of the #indigenous Jewish people in their ancestral homeland of Israel.
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It's time that Israel extended sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. The current occupants should be given citizenship by one of the surrounding Arab countries, especially if they have grandparents or great-grandparents who live there. A lot of the so-called 'Palestinians' are relatively recent migrants to historic Palestine. Then they should be given the opportunity to apply for long-term residence visas to live in Israel, which would give them pretty much everything except voting rights for the Knesset. Millions of people live in other countries on long-term residence visas so that's not controversial. Plus they get all the benefits of a citizen of a thriving Israel.
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@barneygimble8984 : How is my suggestion anything like "ethnic cleansing"? I propose that the surrounding Arab countries be incentivised to give citizenship to the so-called Palestinians. And then Israel give them long-term residence visas so that they do NOT have to leave their homes. And with the long-term residence visas they should also have a pathway to Israeli citizenship, if they or their children should ever want it. It's most likely Jordan and Egypt, and possibly Saudi Arabia, that could be incentivised to give them citizenship, but not Syria, Lebanon and Iraq because they are in a very bad state right now. A lot of the Palestinians came from those countries after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British Mandate and Jewish investment created better economic opportunities for Arabs in the surrounding areas of the Middle East.
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@barneygimble8984 : There were a few years after the 1948 war when around 100,000 (approx?) Arab Palestinians could return, but that right wasn't offered to everyone and the offer was dependent upon the Arab countries also giving citizenship to some of the Arabs who fled. But that rarely happened so Israel's offer lapsed. It was soon a policy of the Arab League that they keep the Arabs in limbo as geopolitical #weapons against the Jewish state of Israel. I don't believe Israel can afford to give citizenship to any more Arab Muslims than the 20% they already have living there. The vast majority are hostile to Israel's existence so it would be a huge security risk [Edit: that's why I said above that giving returnees a residence visa is the only viable solution because that wouldn't give them Knesset voting rights and thus be a threat to the Jewish values of Israel, and they would have their own country to be deported to if they broke the law.] We can see around the world that wherever the Muslim population reaches above 20%, things turn bad, eg. Lebanon. Every country has the right to accept only those people into their country who are not an obvious security risk. Jordan, Lebanon and Syria should by now have given full citizenship to all of those Arabs born in their refugee camps. And those Arabs who had arrived from Egypt some time between 1920-1948, taking advantage of the improved economic prospects due to British rule and Jewish investment, should have returned to Egypt by now instead of holding out hope that Israel would be destroyed.
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