Slimfast and KIND (brand) health snacks founders want Israel in TWO STATES!

AZOLIS: I tend think that partitioning big countries to make small ones is “Balkanization” and doesn’t work. My opinion is that the partition in 1947 was a mistake, as well as the one’s a century ago, and that they should look at the boundaries proposed in 1918 (all Arab countries east of Suez, with a Jewish homeland within those boundaries). Its unreasonable to expect Arab Muslims to ever agree to be rules by others in that region, and that the zionists made a fatal mistake by switching from building up the Yishuv to building a medinah in which the Arabs are ruled by us.

However most Israelis and most American Jews support a two-state solution, so it isn’t reasonable to complain about a Jewish businessman supporting a policy that most American Jews also support.

Splitting up countries always works so well to keep the peace. Just look at India, Cyprus, and Ireland.

And look at what happened in South Africa–they made 10 states for Blacks, and where promptly accused of being more racist than before. Do you see Israel becoming a darling to the world by creating an Arab state?

Why is this information noteworthy? If these Yidden would chalila be mechalel shabbos bifarhesia would it evoke a similar outrage or indignation? My point is that even if you think it’s terrible, we are all aware that ba’avonoseinu there are many Yidden that are estranged from the right path. Why would you choose to highlight this particular deviation over others? I suspect Zionist leanings….

charliehall: At the end of World War I, the Arabs, led by the Great-Great Grandfather of the current Jordanian King, who up to that point had been based in western Arabia, believed he had been promised a unified Arab state including all Arabic areas east of Suez (then as now the exact boundaries where the Turkish and Farsi speaking areas blend into Arabic areas was unclear). The zionists (e.g. Chaim Weitzman, then the universally respected leader of the zionist movement) and the hareidim (Dr. De Haan was their emisary) supported the idea. It would have led to a stable Arab state, with Jews able to move in and build a homeland, but not to subjgate anyone or make the Arabs into second-class citizens in a non-Arab, non-Islamic country. The partition was dreamed up by the Brits (with the help of the French) in order to prevent such a state as part of their “divide and conquer” strategy. The war between the zionists and the Arabs was originally a plan devised in London, and the zionists (and the Arabs) fell for it.