Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 1, 2014, at 7:31 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
> wrote:
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> > 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."
>
> Conceivably. But it’s also conceivable that granting the Palestinians
> formal citizenship would see their demands for equal rights channelled and
> absorbed into the Israeli electoral system, encouraging their gravitation
> towards parties like Balad and even Labour. As we know, granting democratic
> rights (to vote, to form unions) is a two edged sword: it opens the door to
> modest improvements within the system at the same time it saps more
> militant resistance outside of it. Ruling classes often choose to
> institutionalize disruptive and costly conflict in this way, and it may
> well underlie the thinking of that segment of the Zionist right cited by
> Sheizaf. I wouldn’t rule out any scenario.
>
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