Andrerw Marr is a typically pompous extablishment Brit regurgitating popular nonsense that masquerades as wisdom. Andrew Marr has no expertise in any subject about which he now claims to speak. He knows little about the religions of the people involved in the conflict, he cannot speak either Hebrew or Arabic, and has no academic expertise in international law or history. His opinion is based on the tissue of lies the UK media produces. he has in effect incited himself to righteous fury based on lies- a position identical to that of medieval peasant pitchfork in hand. The irony is that he is clearly an intelligent person. If he did not live in an echo chamber he would understand the folly of his position. 1. Arab land is not "Stolen" to make way for settlements. The land in question is neither Arab-owned or stolen. This is simply a lie. Settlements are built on public land and where the owner brings documents proving ownership, courts have always upheld private property rights and ordered any structures built to be demolished. In some cases this has meant entire settlements have been demolished on court order. Any halfway competent journalist should be aware of these things. 2. The Settlements make up less than 10% of the West Bank land and Israel has offered to either evacuate or exchange land of equavalent size and quality in any final peace agreement. The Palestinian Arabs turned this down, repeatedly. If their stated aim is to be free of occupation and their leaders turn down offers to end that occupation, it begs the question of their repeated refusal to take yes for an answer? On this Andrew has nothing to say. 3. Some settlers break the law and attack innocent Arabs. This is contemptible for sure. Yet what is smuggled in under the category of "settler violence" demonstares that it is another concocted antisemitic libel, for in UN reports Jewish primary school children visiting an historic Jewish site in Samaria is cosidered "settler violence" (presumably becuse they were accompanied by armed security guards). Similarly visits by Jews to the Temple Mount are classified by the UN as settler violence and efforts by Jews to recover livestock stolen by Arabs are also classed as settler violence. 4. The long hoped for two state solution? This is insanity? The Palestinian Arab leadership have turned down six offers of partition. Neither have they initiated any peace proposal that envisaged a Jewish state alongside an Arab state. If the Arabs wanted it, the two-state solution has been on the table for 90 years, they have declined every offer. Meanwhile, every inch of the land of Israel given over to Arab self-rule has been used as a base to indoctrinate hatred and to wage war against the jewish inhabitants of the land (which by the way is exactly what Fatah promised in their plan for the staged liberation of Palestine). Insisting there is still hope for a two state solution- is like insisting there is still hope of a marriage when the girl has already said no on six previous occasions, often voicing violent opposition to the suggestion. 5. Despite all of the above, there is already an Arab Palestine nd had been since 1946. It is called Jordan and it sits on roughly 80% of the territory of the Mandate for Palestine. This is historically illiterate garbage and my comments relate only to the first 28 seconds of his nonsense. if I heard this from a man down the pub I would be shocked at his ignorance. That this comes from a former senior BBC journalist is at least revealing.