Palestine, aka, The right list

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Apr 9 12:57:41 PDT 2002


Chris Kromm wrote:
>
> 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.

We clearly can't put it at the center of our activity, but I don't think this demand can ever be completely erased from any legitimate left program. A two-state 'solution' (the scare quotes are essential), provided the Palestinian state is a _real_ sovereign state which determines its own military and foreign policy, will bring temporary order -- but nothing except the state Chris describes will ever bring permanent peace to the area.

Carrol



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