Here's some objectivity in a question:
If you could travel back in time and accept the partiition Palestine's Arab leaders rejected in 1937, would you?
Same question about the 1947 partition plan. Would you accept partition and live side by side with a Jewish state?
If you could travel back in time to April 23, 1948 and tell Haifa's Arab population not to leave, as their leaders did with a DIY own goal Nakba, would you? Yes or no?
Same yes or no question about the Clinton Parameters that Arafat rejected. Would you accept, as Prince Bandar pleaded with Arafat to do? or reject?
You'll find more objectivity here from Zahir Muhsein's 1977 interview in the Dutch newspaper Trouw about Palestinian nationality and what Arafat said in 1993, cited in my article
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab
unity. In reality today there is no dif-ference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only
for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the
existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign
state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beersheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."
How will you "objectively" unsay what the PLO's own leaders and Jordan's King Abdullah themselves have said about Jordanian and Palestinian nationality being one and the same?
How will you make the "subjective" Public Record Office's immigration records "objectively" disappear?
Will you try to make a 2500 year old temple "objectively" disappear, as Arafat's negotiation support team did? Interesting definition of objectivity.
I'd love to put the Clinton Parameters back on the table and get Israel out of 96% of the West Bank. But, as Corey Gil-Shuster's Ask Project has made clear in more than 1000 interviews with ordinary West Bank Palestinians, they prefer the fantasy of return to Jaffa, Haifa and Netanya to peace. https://www.youtube.com/user/coreygilshuster Negotiating with people whose very identity defines you out of existence is like negotiating reality with a QAnonified Trump voter about the 2020 election or negotiating with a 1960s German from East Prussia, the Sudetenland or Silesia who dreams of returning "home" after a lost war.
