Hamas of Gaza Strip and Fatah of the West Bank joining hands to form a unified Palestine government is a welcome development but it needs to be taken to its feasible, logical and sensible end, if Palestinians want to resolve this issue.

Since the days of “Balfour Declaration” of 1917 due to their highly irrational, one-sided, discriminatory and unjustified policies, Israel and the West (US and allies) have lost the initiative to resolve Israel-Palestine problem and further initiative to resolve this problem has to come from Palestinians only.

No doubt immense injustice has been done to Palestinians who were driven out of their lands in the name of Holocaust and other injustices done to Jews in Europe (though Palestinians had nothing to do with these cruelties against the Jews in Europe). But now whatever has happened in the past should be buried by Palestinians and they should demand and work for a One-State solution.

The two-state solution (where Israel is demanding a Jewish State) is such an absurd and highly objectionable concept that if someone (including those from Israel and the West) still believes in it then he is simply assuming that remaining mankind is so duffer that it does not understand anything about politics.

It is hoped that the Palestine leaders would come out of their past and would endeavor to resolve this issue.

Hem Raj Jain

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