A bit more on Israel/Palestine
I ' m just going to outsource to Josh Marshall here, this is a bit he shows on his front page so no problem sharing it, although the rest of it is paywalled.In a few recent posts we ’ve discussed the question of whether one
state or two states is the most logical or possible resolution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (You can see my argumenthere.) A few days ago TPM ReaderRC sent me this AprilForeign Affairs article,Israel ’s One-State Reality.
It was written by three scholars at GW and another at the University of
Maryland. The piece was interesting to me because it illustrates a lot
of what the one state argument is really about. As the title suggests,
the article is not so much an argument that one state in
Israel-Palestine is a solution to anything but an assertion that it is
the current reality.In other words, Israel ’s not a country that functions as a democracy
while controlling occupied territories whose final status will be
decided at some point in the future. It’s a single country in which all
Jews have political and civil rights and most Palestinians have limited
civil rights and no political right s. Given that the post-67 occupation
has persisted for 56 years, this argument has many merits to it. But
what is the import of that assertion? In itself it’s simply a
definitional claim. That part comes next. It’s an argument for the
withdrawal of US support and some escalating framework of sanctions to
compel Israel to come up to...
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