[lbo-talk] Two on the one-state reality

[Joseph Catron]

>
> There’s nothing new about far-right groups holding events in which
> speakers fantasize about “Greater Israel.” But Thursday’s conference was
> different: It indicated that the idea of the one-state solution has become
> respectable within a larger segment of society, including the ranks of
> Israel’s ruling party.

Hotovely was right: For years, moderate right-wingers tiptoed around the
> question of what they envision for the future of the territories Israel
> captured in 1967. Only hardliners openly admitted what perhaps many others
> secretly desired, but knew to be politically too incorrect to openly demand.
>
“We’re all here to say one thing: the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish
> people. Why? Because!” co-organizer Yehudit Katsover proclaimed in her
> opening statement to the conference, which she organized with right-wing
> activist Nadia Matar.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-hebron-conference-proponents-of-the-one-state-solution-show-their-growing-confidence/

How central is the PA for the occupation? It’s enough to point to the fact
> that it was Israel that turned to the International Monetary Fund asking
> for another loan to the authority, which wasn’t able to pay last month’s
> salaries in full. The request was denied, because the PA is not a state
> (oh, the irony!). Security chiefs in Israel have voiced warning regarding
> the “inflammable” situation in the West Bank, and even Netanyahu is more
> careful than ever not to push Abbas into a corner. The Israeli prime
> minister even offered to release some prisoners and give more guns to the
> PA in exchange to a meeting with the Palestinian president.
> Israel will have real problems going back to the model of direct control
> over the Palestinians; in fact, the one and only bargaining position Abbas
> has over Netanyahu is his weakness. My guess is that the West and the Arab
> regimes, which are looking for stability at all costs these days, will not
> let the PA collapse for now, but even if this crisis passes it’s clear that
> the PA has reached a dead end – it cannot sustain itself, and it’s not
> going to become independent. It seems that the Palestinian Authority will
> either disappear or deteriorate to direct and constant oppression of its
> own people. In either scenario, nothing will look the same.

http://972mag.com/signs-of-a-transitional-moment-in-the-israeli-palestinian-dynamic/50930/

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