"If the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then the State of Israel is finished"
Ehud Olmert
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said failure to negotiate a two-state solution with the Palestinians would spell the end of the State of Israel.
He warned of a "South African-style struggle" which Israel would lose if a Palestinian state was not established.
Mr Olmert was returning from the Annapolis conference in the US where he and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas pledged to launch formal peace talks.
The two leaders set a goal of reaching a peace deal with US support in 2008.
If the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then the State of Israel is finished
Ehud Olmert
US President George W Bush called Annapolis, the first substantive Arab-Israeli peace talks in seven years, a "hopeful beginning" for Mid-East peace.
Mr Olmert said it was not the first time he had articulated his fears about the demographic threat to Israel as a Jewish state from a faster growing Palestinian population.
He made similar comments in 2003 when justifying the failed strategy of unilateral withdrawals from Israeli-occupied land which holds large Palestinian populations.
"If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished," Mr Olmert is quoted saying in Haaretz newspaper
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[Hamas wants this solution, as do most Islamists - That's why they offered a ceasefire to Israel. The only people who want this American organised peace is some in the Israeli "left" or "centre" who realise that to maintain Jewish supremacy & a racially based state they have to carve out large bits of Palestine and turn them into bantustans or large open disjointed prison camps for Arabs, naming it the "two state solution", and a "peace deal" establishing an "independent Palestinian state".]