Gaddafi Expresses Support For Hamas

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Friday expressed support for the Palestinian people under Hamas rule.

A report released in the Libyan press announced that Tripoli would continue to assist the Palestinian people in their just struggle to establish a state.

During a meeting between the Libyan leader and exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, Gaddafi asserted that his country did not recognize either Israel or the Palestinian Authority, but rather, would only accept a one-state solution that would combine the two entities.

Gaddafi had previously presented his one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, though it never received any popular support.

The plan consisted of the establishment of a single, democratic nation extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. The country was to be called Isratine.

It'll be fascinating to see how the US and UK accept this statement from the man they now hail, "a statesman".

Of course, the point he raises is one that has come up many times during the course of the occupation. The demographic question will always hover over Israel. And there are many, myself included, who thinks - that by constantly refusing to define her borders - Israel is playing a very dangerous game.

For the past 38 years Israel has, to all intents and purposes, refused to engage in the two state solution.

The problem for Israel, who's population are a minority in the region, is what happens if the Palestinians join them in taking the two state solution off the table?

In any one state solution, demographically, Israel ceases to exist. Is this why, even Sharon - the Godfather of the settlements - came to see disengagement as the only solution?

And doesn't this reveal Netanyahu as the dinosaur that he is?

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