The amount animosity and distrust between the populations being what it is, and would continue for a while to come even if equality of rights were given immediately to all from the Med to the Jordan River and masses of Palestinian refugees returned, the situation would be a powderkeg waiting to blow.
Even if 95% of both populations wanted to do everything to keep the calm and move forward, there would be inevitable incidents of tension and frustration leading to even light level ethnic violence, it would only take a few of these until one extremist faction, be they Jewish or Palestinian would 'retaliate' on a larger scale and likely things would move swiftly on the road to open violence.
In this likely scenario, which I really wish wouldn't happen but I conclude is of high probability if my ideal desire (one state and equality for all) would manifest as reality, it is not the Jewish people that I am worried about.
The inertia of the current social, class and military power differentials would suggest that given this likely trajectory, even if a majority of the population was against it turning out this way, it would again be the Palestinians that lose out, and I hate to say, but a situation which would make the Nakba of 1948 seem like a happy dream.
Be careful for what you wish for, you just might get it.
Bryan
On 5/30/2010 5:32 AM, SA wrote:
> Joseph Catron wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:04 PM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> First of all, you're living in, and I'm guessing a citizen of, one of
>> the
>>> very many countries in the world forged through ethnic cleansing.
>>
>>
>> But not one in which all immigration and naturalization, not to
>> mention a
>> number of the rights of citizens, legally hinge on ethnicity.
>
> You're right, we're not one of the countries that do that. Only Israel
> and scores of other countries around the world do. There are some,
> like Chomsky, who say Israel should become a state of all its citizens
> rather than a Jewish state, a position that has some support in Israel
> (not enough). But that's not your position either.
>
>
>>> Second, Israel's "ethnic purity" is somewhat dampened by the Arabs that
>>> make up 15% of its citizens.
>>
>>
>> As I told Michael before, it's 20% now, but be that as it may, how
>> many of
>> them do you suppose Israel would hope to "land-swap" away in any final
>> agreement?
>
> None of them - at least not in any of the settlements proposed by any
> Israeli government. That's a very minoritarian position in Israel
> supported by only a few people, like Avigdor Lieberman (before he
> entered the government).
>
>> You sound like
>> one of the Israeli government spokesmen
>
> Yeah, I get that all the time.
>
> SA
>
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