Two states not a magic solution, says J Street head

[Ken Burch]

13. What possible good would Jordanian re-annexation of Palestine do?

Palestinians never wanted to be Jordanian citizens, and all Jordan would bring to the situation would be brutal, relentless oppression.

Collective punishment of the people of Palestine by Israel has never achieved anything; neither would collective punishment of the people of Palestine by the Hashemite Kingdom.

The best way to get Palestinians to react differently to Israel would be to give them breathing space, let them live their daily lives free of relentless harassment by the IDF, and to admit that Palestinians have legitimate grievances about how they've been treated under the Occupation.

It's been seventeen straight years of the Likud hardline and nothing good has come of it. Why expect different results from a harder hard line?