ISRAEL - The Two-State Solution Promise
“In the next 50 years, you will not find one Israeli leader that will propose to you what I propose to you now.
“Sign it! Sign it and let’s change history!”
It was 2008. Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was imploring the Palestinian leader to accept a deal he believed could have brought peace to the Middle East.
[In a documentary], Olmert reveals the map he says he showed to Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting in Jerusalem on 16 September 2008.
“This is the first time that I expose this map to the media,” he tells the filmmakers.
It shows, in detail, the territory which Olmert proposed to annex to Israel—4.9% of the West Bank.
That would have included major Jewish settlement blocs—just like previous proposals dating back to the late 1990s.
In return, the prime minister said Israel would give up an equal amount of Israeli territory, along the edges of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The two Palestinian territories would be connected via a tunnel or highway—something that had been discussed before.
Each side would be able to claim parts of the city as their capital, while administration of the “holy basin”—including the Old City, with its religious sites, and adjacent areas—would be handed over to a committee of trustees consisting of Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the US.
In 1973, the former Israeli diplomat, Abba Eban, quipped that the Palestinians “never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” It’s a phrase that Israeli officials have frequently repeated in the years since.
-www.bbc.com, 24 February 2025
Arno's Commentary
It seems unbelievable yet true. Arab Palestinians have not the slightest notion to accept a Jewish State. Quite ironically, the world of nations still insists that the lack of peace in the Middle East is because of Israel’s refusal to a two-state solution.
The Group of Seven (G7) supports a two-state solution, as does the European Union (EU), Arab League, United States, China, Germany, India, UK, France, Italy, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia. It seems the leaders of those nations totally ignore the facts and apparently live in a dream world.
Viewing this from Scriptural perspectives, we quote Ezekiel 34:13: “And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.”
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Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.
