Relative Humanity: The Fundamental Obstacle to a One State Solution

[DuctapeFatwa]

Good riddance! The two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is finally dead. But someone has to issue an official death certificate before the rotting corpse is given a proper burial and we can all move on and explore the more just, moral and therefore enduring alternative for peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs in Mandate Palestine: the one-state solution.

Blinded by the arrogance of power and the ephemeral comfort of impunity, Israel, against its strategic Zionist interests, failed to control its insatiable appetite for expansion, and went ahead with devouring the very last bit of land that was supposed to form the material foundation for an independent Palestinian state. Since the eruption of the second Palestinian intifada Israel has entered a new critical phase where its military repression against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza has reached new lows, and its flouting of UN resolutions new heights, where its incessant land grab has led it to erect a wall around Palestinian population centers, separating Palestinians from their lands -- thus dispossessing them yet again -- and where moral corruption and racial discrimination have more lucidly eroded the internal coherence of Israeli society as well as its marketed image as a “democracy.” As a result, Israel’s standing in world public opinion has nose-dived, bringing it closer to the status of a pariah state.

This phase has all the emblematic properties of what may be considered the final chapter of the Zionist project. We are witnessing the rapid demise of Zionism, and nothing can be done to save it, for Zionism is intent on killing itself. I, for one, support euthanasia. Going back to the two-state solution, besides having passed its expiry date, it was never a moral solution to start with. In the best-case scenario, if UN resolution 242 were meticulously implemented, it would have addressed most of the legitimate rights of less than a third of the Palestinian people over less than a fifth of their ancestral land. More than two thirds of the Palestinians, refugees plus the Palestinian citizens of Israel, have been dubiously and shortsightedly expunged out of the definition of the Palestinians. Such exclusion can only guarantee the perpetuation of conflict. .

Well, the Palestinians’ “prudence” is running out. The yielding of their official leadership to force merely led to more colonization, and promises for yet more to come.

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=20031231154942458

[Resistance]

1. Wow

this is excellent.

The moral, just, and only realistic solution is truly the one-state, bi-national solution. There is already a single state anyway, so our choices are actually fairly clear: We can choose between a true Democracy with liberty and justice for all the people of PalestineIsrael, or we can choose Apartheid and massive unjustice.

Nice find, Ductape Fatwa!

[Muddleoftheroad]

2. What complete and utter crap

This is just a Palestinian fantasy in written form.

The two-state solution is the only possible solution short of armageddon. All this does is remind Israel that that the other side opposes its very existence.

Sooner or later, I hope, the Palestinians will support peace. Until that day comes, wall 'em off.