Lluís Bassets on Israel's three options

Lluís Bassets writes in his blog for the daily El País that of the three desirable goals of peace, democracy and land Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can only choose two: "Netanyahu wants it all: peace, territory and democracy. But there is a well-known axiom whereby you can only have two of three things. So this leaves three combinations from which to choose. If he chooses peace and democracy - as all friends of Israel hope he will - he will have to give back the territories with the necessary exchanges for the largest settlements. With everyone's help this would result in the creation of a neigbouring state of Palestine with secure borders that are recognised by its neighbours. If he chooses peace and territory, he must deprive the Arabs living between Jordan and the Mediterranean of their rights to prevent their looming demographic majority from becoming a political majority, which would result in a bi-national Israeli-Palestinian state and the end of the Zionist dream. If he chooses territory and democracy and postpones peace for later - as he is doing at present - he must tighten the military control of the West Bank to the further detriment of his international standing."

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