Reply To: 'two-state solution'? 'one-state solution'?
I’m a pessimist. I see no solution either in one-state or two-state.
The Israeli Jewish population has demonstrated that they are not willing to share the country on an equal basis with non-Jewish Israelis. I think the divide is growing ever more entrenched.
I cannot see the two-state alternative ever being viable. Over half a million West Bank settlers will not be so easily removed when the settlements are seen as alternative cheap housing compared to the sky-high property prices of Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel which a few years ago ignited protests.
The Palestinian elite will exist and to protect their privilege will blame all the inequalities that will arise from a non-functioning “independent” state on the economic domination of Israel and perpetuate the hatreds by making Israel their scapegoat and with ample cause.
Worth a read is the blog-post
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-other-palestinian-struggle-class.html
“It doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone that doing away with Capital and the State might be the best solution”
Can socialist ideas penetrate Israeli and Palestinian nationalism? We have little success with the mild/moderate nationalism that we regularly encounter much less the nationalism of peoples who consider themselves to be on a permanent war-footing with one another.