Wojtek Sent from my Droid On Dec 5, 2012 12:48 PM, "Joseph Catron" <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Once the fiction of a separate Palestinian state is revealed to have no
> > more substance than the Wizard of Oz — which the E1 plan will all but
> > guarantee — those Palestinians who have not already done so will commit
> > themselves to the only viable alternative: a one-state solution, in which
> > the idea of an exclusively Jewish state and an exclusively Palestinian
> one
> > will yield to what was really all along the preferable alternative, a
> > single democratic and secular state in all of historical Palestine that
> > both peoples will have to share as equal citizens.
> >
> > A campaign for rights and equality in a single state is a project toward
> > which the Palestinians will now be able to turn with the formidable
> > international support they have already developed at both the diplomatic
> > and the grassroots levels, including a global boycott and sanctions
> > movement whose bite Israel has already felt.
> >
> > For Palestinians, in any case, one state is infinitely preferable to two,
> > for the simple reason that no version of the two-state solution that has
> > ever been proposed has meaningfully sought to address the rights of more
> > than the minority of Palestinians who actually live in the territory on
> > which that state is supposed to exist.
> >
> > The majority of Palestinians live either in the exile to which they were
> > driven from their homes during the creation of Israel in 1948, or as
> > second-class citizens of Israel, where they face formidable obstacles as
> > non-Jews in a state that reserves a full spectrum of rights only for
> Jews.
> >
> > For Palestinians, the right to return home and the right to live in
> > dignity and equality in their own land are not any less important than
> the
> > right to live free of military occupation. A separate state addressed
> only
> > the latter, but there can never be a just and lasting peace that does not
> > address all those rights ...
>
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