The weird fact is that this week two respected polls -- independent of each other -- came to the same conclusion: the great majority of Israeli voters favors the "two-state solution," the creation of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders and the partition of Jerusalem. This majority includes the majority of Likud voters, and even about half of Bennett's adherents.
How come? The explanation lies in the next question: How many voters believe that this solution is possible? The answer: almost nobody. Over dozens of years, Israelis have been brainwashed into believing that "the Arabs" don't want peace. If they say they do, they are lying.
If peace is impossible, why think about it? Why even mention it in the election campaign? Why not go back 44 years to Golda Meir's days and pretend that the Palestinians don't exist? ("There is no such thing as a Palestinian people...It is not as though there was a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away. They did not exist." -- Golda Meir, June 13, 1969)
So that's riddle No. 3
THE STUDENTS in a few hundred years time may well come to the conclusion: "Those Israeli elections were really weird, especially considering what happened in the following years. We have found no reasonable explanation."
The professor will sadly shake his head.
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