: re: For Israel, Two-State Is No Solution

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From: barry levine 
Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:50 PM
Subject: re: For Israel, Two-State Is No Solution
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

  Naftali Bennett is correct in observing that the Israeli status quo is untenable and is not leading to--or even towards--a solution.  But he goes wrong in making progress continent on peace. Israel has made peace with the Egyptian state and Israel has made peace with the Jordanian state. But know one even knows what it could mean for Israel to make peace with a non-state entity.  That which can exert a monopoly on the use of force is a state. Nothing less than that can make a peace.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/opinion/naftali-bennett-for-israel-two-state-is-no-solution.html?ref=opinion&_r=0