Reply #12: Did a little more digging - looks like it originated with Amos Oz [View All]

[oberliner]

Amoz Oz NY Times article from 2002:

History will never forget their offenses, because the solution is here, visible, manifestly clear before us all. Every Israeli and every Palestinian knows that this land will be divided into two sovereign nations and become like a semi-detached two-family house. Even those who loathe this future already know, deep in their hearts, that all this is inevitable.

I suspect that even the Siamese twins, Mr. Sharon and Mr. Arafat -- I now call them ''Mr. Sharafat'' -- know this. But fear and stagnation stifle them both. They are living under the dominion of a bloodstained past. They are hostages to one another, so much so that the entire historical dynamic of the conflict of the Middle East has become captive to their fears, their immobility.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/12/opinion/two-stubborn-men-and-many-dead.html