One-State Solution For Palestine/Israel?

[BN]

"The late Palestinian thinker Edward Said had a vision of Palestine's future based on two ideas: the first one is that the widening of the Israeli settlements renders geographically impossible to establish a Palestinian state, and the second one is that the solution is to establish a state with a bi-national identity for both the Jewish and Palestinian people."

 

"It was obvious for him that the idea of two states living together is impossible because the Israeli strategic thought is working against it. In fact, they were only concerned with the security issue. There was no difference between the Likud and Labor governments that came to power after the Oslo Accords."Dar Al Hayat

 

 

"Marwan Barghouti, widely seen as Yasser Arafat's likely successor as head of the dominant Fatah party, told an Israeli court that "if an occupation does not end unilaterally or through negotiations then there is only one solution: one state for two people".

 

This so-called one state solution to the Middle East crisis is seen as a serious threat by many Israelis, since demographic trends predict that soon there will be an overall Arab majority in the combined Israeli and Arab territories." Sydney Morning Herald

 

 

"There is also a growing realisation that demographic trends will redefine the Arab-Jewish population balance in the territory of historic Palestine between the Mediterranean sea and the river Jordan. We already have rough parity between the two populations today; by 2020 the balance is likely to be 60-40 in favour of the Arabs." Guardian Newspaper

 

""And that's not the worst of it. The growing Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories, the 'settler roads' that service them, and the gigantic fortified barrier that will soon protect them, have sliced and diced the Palestinian territories to an extent that it is increasingly hard to imagine a viable state being built in them." Globe and Mail

 

The new way of thinking, which has flourished among Arab commentators in the online media in recent months, holds the traditional goal of establishing a Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel is unrealistic, if not impossible. Palestinians, they say, should start seeking a goal both more modest and radical: full citizenship under Israeli law as embodied in the slogan "one man, one vote." Washington Post

[General Duke]

Alas Ariel Sharon, the proclaimed king of Isrial is helping to kill the Zionist dream of a pure Jewish state, he should leave the occupied territories. The growing mixing of the two people will be hard to seperate, but a state where HAMAS and the SICK SETTLERS live together would be amazing.