Palestine, aka, The right list

virgil tibbs sheik_of_encino at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 9 13:11:59 PDT 2002


with all due respect, if success is determined by "permanent peace," then you are doomed to failure.

I would not bet on permanent peace between U.S. and Canada.

In fact, I am not sure how you can "know" that a one state solution would work. Moreover, to the extent that Yugoslavia was a one state solution, it did not turn out too well.

eric

--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> 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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