Ever since the stinging success of the PLO/PA statehood gambit at the UN a couple of weeks ago Netanyahu has been going out of his way to make it plain to the world that the Palestinian ploy will speed up rather than slow down the attainment of a "Greater Israel."
New homes and highways (for Israeli Jews only, of course) are announced almost on a daily basis.
It's not hard to figure out the short-term strategy here. Netanyahu needs to staunch the outflow of votes that could go to the right of him in the January election.
Fair enough. But what is the long term strategy?
Making a two-state solution impossible makes a one-state solution inevitable. The only possible way to avoid that conclusion is through the magical assumption that the Palestinians, after 65 years, will suddenly tire of the struggle and move en masse to Jordan and Egypt.
Barring that, Israeli Jews are facing the fact that sooner or later they will be a minority in their homeland.
Then what?
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