Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.
Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.
It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.
It pains me to see the gap that exists in the public's consciousness - religious and secular - between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state and as a democratic state.
The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's colonialism rather than Iran's nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.
The Palestinian national movement is not an Islamic religious movement.