Solving Two Crises

by Howard L. Berman

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/solving_two_crises_20100127/

Throughout my nearly three decades in Congress, and now as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I have been preoccupied with issues involving Israel’s security and Middle East peace. I made my first trip to Israel as a congressman in 1983. It was then that I first began to discern the primary problem Israel would have to face if it maintained its hold on the West Bank and Gaza: Either it would eventually have to rule over a disenfranchised Palestinian majority, or — if it enfranchised the Palestinians — Israel would eventually cease to be Jewish. Call it the “democracy/demography” problem. I knew I wanted Israel, as a Jewish homeland, to be a democracy.

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Comments:	A friend has recommended you read the following from The Jewish Journal... Solving Two Crises Throughout my nearly three decades in Congress, and now as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I have been preoccupied with issues involving Israel’s security and Middle East peace. I made my first trip to Israel as a congressman in 1983. It was then that I first began to discern the primary problem Israel would have to face if it maintained its hold on the West Bank and Gaza: Either it would eventually have to rule over a disenfranchised Palestinian majority, or — if it enfranchised the Palestinians — Israel would eventually cease to be Jewish. Call it the “democracy/demography” problem. I knew I wanted Israel, as a Jewish homeland, to be a democracy. http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/solving_two_crises_20100127/ Sign up for our free email news alerts at http://www.jewishjournal.com/email.

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