The Jewish people want and deserve their homeland ... A two-state solution will create an unacceptable security threat to Israel ... The Palestinian-held areas could not accommodate all of the refugees ... Israelis and Palestinians have also become increasingly intertwined, economically and politically.But he side-steps the key reason that Israelis want a two-state solution. Palestinian Muslims have much higher birth-rates than Israeli Jews and would, in a matter of years, become the majority in a combined state. Since the history of minorities in Muslim-majority countries is not encouraging, there is little reassurance that Qaddafi or any other Arab can provide to Jews in this regard.
One-state solution: the demographic time bomb
Muammar Qaddafi (yes, him!) has a seductively reasonable op-ed arguing for a one-state solution in the Middle East:
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