1982 was the year Israel invaded Beirut, and thus ceased to fight wars of justification on the grounds of survival, and went over to potentate -imperialism on behalf of the USA. the ideal of the 2-state was always a bit shaky anyway and has certainly lost any validity by now.
so what has been gained via Israel ? following the Hegel-marx principle, we can at least conclude that the historical gain has been that jews need never again dread the return of pogroms and genocides; they have their nation and it looks secure. Israel, now established, will have to stop sentimental bleatings, stop playing eternal victim of history, and be judged according to the standards of other nations. This is also the departure point: the matter of concern is now for the Palestinians and their historical rights.

Israel did have a good reason to invade lebonan and that was because the PLO had moved their base their after being expelled from Jordon in 1970 and were using southern Lebanon as a base to launch terrorist attacks on Israel. So you can't say that Israel was unprovoked into invading Lebanon.

The presence of the PLO in Lebanon had led to civil war in 1975 between Muslim militias and Chritain militias after the PLO gained control of most Muslim areas of southern Lebanon and turned them into PLO bases which were under almost complete PLO control. The war in Lebanon was not just between Israel and the PLO it was a multi-sided war with many different factions all fighting to control their own territory and all striving for supremacy such as Hezbollah who kidnappened westerners including Terry Wait.

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A one state solution would be a really good idea but first the threat from Hamas, Hezbollah and other groups carrying out suicide bombing must be neutralised first! The Palestinian authority needs to clamp down really hard on these extremists before Israelis will be satisfied that the Palestinians authority is serious about peace. Then there can be moves towards a proper peace settlement. But while these suicide bombings are still taking place and are still a threat then peace will still be a very long way off.

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All of Israels wars have been wars of aggression. Isreals own documentation show that (see for example the book 'the Iron Wall'). The whole one or two State arguement is irrelevent to the task of building solidarity with the anti-Zionist struggle here in britain...
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