[lbo-talk] [Pen-l] Israel moves closer to a single-state solution

[Robert Naiman]

Though it should be noted that Sheizaf does not believe that they are
really serious, and believes that so long as Israeli does not face
significantly increased pressure, the choice of the Israeli political
system will continue to be "maintain the status quo while trying to
minimize its costs," and that if Israel ever faced enough pressure to force
it to abandon the status quo, Israeli Jews would decisively choose "two
state solution" over "one state solution that grants rights to
Palestinians."

Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Israel’s decision, announced this weekend, to expropriate 1000 acres of
> Palestinian land is the largest single land grab in the past three decades
> of the occupation, and further evidence, in case such were needed, that it
> has no intention of negotiating a two-state solution.
>
> I’ve linked below an excellent article published several months ago by the
> Israeli blogger Noam Shiezaf indicating what prominent figures close to the
> governing right-wing coalition have in mind for a single Jewish state
> encompassing the West Bank but excluding Gaza and the Palestinian refugees.
> Contrary to the fears expressed by their liberal counterparts, these
> right-wing Zionists do not believe they will have to choose between
> demography and democracy; they’re convinced they can both grant formal
> citizenship rights to the West Bank Palestinians while retaining a Jewish
> majority in their realized vision of a Greater Israel spanning both banks
> of the Jordan River.
>
> http://972mag.com/what-is-the-israeli-rights-one-state-vision/90755/
>
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