What is happening in Jerusalem?

My remark on Waters is not cheap, when you have one of the finest lyricists in modern times, constantly swearing in his video posts , it makes me wonder about his innate credibility. He is an extremist (just like Pink I guess) 

The third one exists: From a realistic point of view, in the short and medium term, the Palestinians as a nation are doomed to disappear. 

They will not have a true, autonomous state, and Israel does not want to annex the West Bank because it does not want a secular state, it wants to remain Jewish, and to be Jewish it must have a Jewish majority (and if we add Israeli Palestinians to those of the West Bank, in total these are more than the Jews). 

We all are witnessing the demise of the Palestinian people, which is happening every day with the construction of new Israeli settlements and the demolition of Palestinian homes. Palestinians who do not emigrate will live in small enclaves, controlled by the Israeli military (similar to American reserves for Native Americans, but much more crowded), but the rest of the Palestinians, the majority of them, will live in exile.

I would like the Palestinians to react in a nonviolent way, but their leaders are divided, and they do not have the proper culture to do so, moreover, to do a nonviolent campaign they must have the support of the international community, as happened with the boycott of South Africa. 

I limit myself to pointing out what the associations led by Israeli and Palestinian nonviolent pacifists, united, Jews and Muslims, do as a testimony of what should be done.

There is also a fourth option as espoused by the Arab extremists = the destruction or eviction of all Jewish Israelis , maybe even the Christians (see Lebanon or Syria) permanently (which will not happen), but fear goes beyond logic . These are not my words but rather one that is loud and hard by religious fanatics who have no idea what any democracy (even semi-failed ones around the world) is and frankly , they don't even want it , as you correctly stated . What you said initially in your earlier posts were clearly tinged with the usual semi-propaganda, which is why some are frustrated. But you seem to have dropped the cut and paste methodology and replaced it with a modicum of logic. Yes , what is happening is horrible , even most Israelis feel fear, anger and disappointment. I have Arab Israeli friends who would shudder at the thought of living under Hamas or Hezbollah, there are 2.5 million of them. But until, the religious BS leaves the room, it will be hard. I was asked by 20 Muslim employees because of my history knowledge while I was managing a restaurant during the first Gulf War "Why is the West always on the side of Israel?". I answered slowly the following: name me one Arab or even Muslim country anywhere that has had any free and open multi-party elections? Answer: zero. Today, I still can't even name one . Your arguments are all valid but they are slanted by not looking at context, history, political realities and mostly that Israel does have a multi-faceted society as well as not all being "believers", where you can be gay, lesbian, trans and drink alcohol and party, as well as disagreeing with your leaders.   

Even unbiased experts are at a loss to extricate some kind of solution that would be fair to all. I must have thousands of pages of research and interviews and still can't really offer anything except a return to the original declaration of Independence and hope that saner leaders will prevail (Sadat, Rabin were assassinated for daring to try). Accept each other, live and respect each other , like you did a few times and for hundreds of years, in peace and harmony.  

ssmarcus wrote: ...Now you obviously don't accept the idea of Jewish self-determination (that is easily implied from your comments until this point)...

Your way of misreading/misinterpreting my posts is staggering.

You may not agree with my point of of view, and I definitely don't agree with yours. First of all, your "status quo solution" implies that you are in favour of continuing suffocation and oppression of the Palestinians. For you, that is sustainable, for me that is accepting injustice as a strategy; for me that is not a solution (and should not be).

Second, I am not against Jewish self-determination, but the way Israel was created has been cause of many problems because it used injustice as a building logic. But I am especially against apartheid. When I'm talking about Israel, I'm not just talking about Jews.

You seem to be against self-determination of Palestinians (out of fear, which is understandable, but still not right). What's your right to deprive a country/population of something you claim for yourself?