The point you may be unaware of, and which I addressed in the article, is that 21% of Israel's population are Israeli Arabs. These are Palestinians who are fully Israeli citizens.
- They can move about the country at will.
- They can buy property anywhere they choose (if it's within their financial capability, just as with any other citizen).
- They can vote for local and national-level representatives.
- They can, and do, serve as members of the Knesset (Israel's legislature).
- They can, and do, serve as judges including in Israel's supreme court.
- They can, and have, served as ministers in Israeli governments.
- They can, and do, work across Israel, most notably as pharmacists and nurses, though there's nothing limiting them to those occupations.
Palestinians who live outside of the pre-1967 borders are not citizens. They have certain lesser rights, and their plight is far less savory, especially with the far-right Israeli settlers and the current right-wing-nut Israeli government.
Far from saying that they need to die, or even be driven off, I'm saying in the article that historical rights are made moot by the facts on the ground, that between the river and the sea we have ~7.6 million Palestinians (including the ~2.1 million Israeli Arab citizens) and 7.2 million Jews.
Unless you're willing to commit true genocide and/or ethnic cleansing (not the ignorant claims made by far too many on the so-called "Progressive" left here in the US), if you don't want Israel to truly become an apartheid state, and if you're not willing to make Israel into Palestine where Jews are an oppressed minority, then a two-state solution is the only possible and ethical end solution.
The problem is that to proceed toward that, Israel has to be convinced that the Palestinians can be trusted to accept and live peacefully side by side with a Jewish state of Israel, rather than using any Israeli concessions as a salami-style path toward making Israel more vulnerable to an overwhelming attack that will destroy it and get the Palestinians their desire of owning everything, from the river to the sea.
Thus far, on more occasions than I care to count, the Palestinians have declined any such solution and have time and time again proven themselves unreliable partners to good-faith peace negotiations.
