Palestine, aka, The right list

Brad DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Tue Apr 9 11:15:54 PDT 2002



>Of course, the true progressive position is the demand for a single, secular
>state. But in today's intellectual and political climate, that's as crazy as
>arguing for, say, socialism.

Well, that *is* what the British thought they would set up after World War I--one land that would be a national home for Jews and for Palestinians. But the thirty years after the Balfour Declaration convinced the British that a two-state solution was the *only* solution that had a chance of avoiding violent anarchy.

Has something happened since to make a single-state solution more likely to work? Or is the "true progressive position" that it is good to burn everything to the ground and kill a hell of a lot of people?

All in all, it would have been a much better idea for the British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to have called for a national home for the Jewish people in Utah. The Great Salt Lake is much better than the Dead Sea. The skiing is much better in Utah. And the Mormons would have loved the Aliyeh

"...the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: 'The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews,. When the Jew will hide behind stones and trees, the stones and trees will say, "O Moslems, O Servants of God,. There is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him." Only the Gharkad tree would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.'"



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