Israel's Other Occupation

[Scurrilous]

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"CLEARLY, there’s a war here, sometimes even worse than the one in Samaria,” the yeshiva student said. “It’s not a war with guns. It’s a war of light against darkness.”

We were sitting in the mixed Jewish-Arab town of Acre in Israel. The war he described was another front in the struggle he knew from growing up in a settlement in the northern West Bank, or Samaria: the daily contest between Jews and Palestinians for control of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.

The explicit reason that his yeshiva had been established in Acre was to serve as a bridgehead in that struggle, just as West Bank settlements are built to bolster the Jewish hold on land there.

Israeli politicians and pundits labeled the Oct. 3 burning of a mosque in Tuba Zangaria, an Arab community in northern Israel, and the subsequent desecration of Arab graves in Jaffa as a sudden escalation. But they were mistaken.

For several years, extremist West Bank settlers have conducted a campaign of low-level violence against their Palestinian neighbors — destroying property, vandalizing mosques and occasionally injuring people. Such “price tag” attacks, intended to intimidate Palestinians and make Israeli leaders pay a price for enforcing the law against settlers, have become part of the routine of conflict in occupied territory.

Now that conflict is coming home. The words "price tag" spray-painted in Hebrew on the wall of a burned mosque inside Israel’s pre-1967 borders transformed Israel’s Arab citizens into targets and tore at the all-too-delicate fabric of a shared democracy."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/opinion/sunday/israels-other-occupation.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&hp

[UndertheOcean]

1. I am starting to think that for their own sake , The Palestinians should just wear the big brother

pants and just leave all the land west of the Jordan river to the Jews , until their collective PSTD gets sorted out .

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Single state is probably the best answer

Most Arab or Muslim Israelis do not want to become Palestinians. They enjoy the good standard of living in Israel. Its a clue

[UndertheOcean]

4. But , would :

1) The Israeli Jews accept one state were they are not the majority ?
2) The Arab Israelis and the West Bank/Gaza Palestinians accept to be a part of a state with a big Jewish minority (40+%, don't know , it has been a while since I looked at population figures)

Until 1) and 2) are not in the "when pigs fly" realm, a one state solution is a beautiful dream , pipe dream.

[Mosby]

5. you think the israelis should annex the wb?

Seriously?

[oberliner]

3. Israel itself is occupied?

This article talks about action within Israel itself under the headline of "Israel's Other Occupation" - is the implication then that Israel proper is occupied? If so, by whom? If not, what is the "other occupation" of the title?