[lbo-talk] real world labels include 'zionism' and 'zionist'

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>[lbo-talk] real world labels include 'zionism' and 'zionist'
>Jon Johanning zenner41 at mac.com
>Tue Dec 28 14:21:26 PST 2004
<snip>
>On Dec 28, 2004, at 2:03 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>  Whether there is one state or two states in historic Palestine or
>>  whether there is a state called Israel in it is not the most important
>>  question.  After all, what's in a name?
>
>I get the impression, though, that the difference between one and 
>two states does matter quite a bit to quite a few people in that 
>area! It's one of the big questions that are going to have to be 
>settled.
>
>>  The question is whether people are committed to upholding equal rights
>>  between Arabs and Jews (as well as other more recent immigrants) in
>>  historic Palestine.
>
>It's fairly easy to commit to that if you're an outside observer, 
>but much harder, it seems, if you live there.
>
>Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org

At bottom, it's up to people who live in historic Palestine to 
achieve equal rights between Arabs and Jews, but Israel can't hope to 
gain international legitimacy while being committed to legal 
inequality between Jews and non-Jews.
-- 
Yoshie

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