Melanie Phillips is at UC Berkeley where she found Jewish students there cowed and afraid to publicly discuss Israel. Instead she had to give her presentation behind closed doors.
Her talk covers a range of issues that suggest a two state solution may not work.
Since Resolution 2334 was passed, we have discovered that understandings of international law and how it applies to the Arab-Israeli conflict are poor across the board.
Elements of her presentation give good background to this aspect of the debate.
Here she gives the content of her closed door presentation:
Should we support a two-state solution? If the Palestinians were to accept a state of Palestine living in peace alongside the State of Israel, whose existence as a Jewish state they would accept, I would certainly accept that and I guess most Israelis would accept it too. But when you look at certain facts, which most people either deliberately ignore or suppress or don’t even know, you realise the question itself is a tremendous red herring.
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