My plea to the left: treat Jews the same way you’d treat any other minority

[Ken Burch]

18. I suppose it is derived from Geneva.

One of the biggest points I also try to make on this is that what matters is getting the conflict ended, not whether or not one side gets to claim "victory".

And my awareness of these issues started around the 1977-78 era, when Andrew Young, as Carter's UN Ambassador, was pilloried and demonized simply for supporting negotiations with the Palestinians(and Jesse Jackson was put through the ringer simply for backing a two-state model-something even Netanyahu claims to support now).

What workable alternative to accepting a Palestinian state ever really existed? It always went without saying that the Palestinians were never going to accept either permanent Israeli control of the West Bank or reversion of the area to Jordan, so why was it considered anathema to support the only idea(two states)that ever had any chance at all of ending the killing? And why would anyone ever have felt that settling the West Bank was more important than peace?