Pros+and+Cons

=Pros and Cons =

Pros
 * 1) By creating a separate state for the Palestinians, it would allow for both the Israelis and the Palestinians to live on land that they have valid historical claim to.
 * 2) It would (for the time being) stop the bloodshed.
 * 3) The negotiations in themselves have become the goal rather than only the means to reaching a solution. In reality, a productive approach to negotiations necessitates an immediate declaration of a state, as Palestinians would then feel relatively empowered to engage in negotiations in which there still remains severe power imbalance.
 * 4) Palestine's admission to the United Nations will pave the way for the internationalization of the conflict as a legal matter, not only a political one (Abbas, Mahmoud. "The Long-Overdue Palestinian State." 18 May 2011)

Cons

 * 1) If the Palestinians are granted statehood, they'll be independent, and can officially get weapons resources against Israel from the rest of the middle east (According to personal interview with Anna Prozorov, Israeli by birth, 10/24/11)
 * 2) The Jewish people would be persecuted more
 * 3) A two-state solution will do little to redress the grievances of the Palestinians or satisfy the Israelis’ security concerns.
 * 4) The PLO(Palestine Liberation Organization) was established 1964, three years before the tensions before tensions between Israel and Palestine arise. It is stated in their charter that one of the goals of the organization is the "liquidation of the Zionist presence in Palestine"
 * 5) Many Palestinians and not a few Israelis who think that division into two states is indeed no longer possible.
 * 6) Half a million Israelis, comprising nearly 10 percent of the Jewish population of Israel, live beyond the 1967 Green Line (300,000 in the West Bank and 200,000 in East Jerusalem).This has created a new, irrevocable reality and the land can no longer be divided(Rubenstein, Danny. "Let There Be One State." 26 Apr 2010).