The 193-member world body approved [September 13] a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly 80-year conflict. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
The 193-member world body approved [September 13] a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly 80-year conflict. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
There’s basically no way two-state will work anymore, right?
Maybe a few decades ago. But even if Bibi was magically removed for the most pro-Palestine government possible, Israel’s war crimes were recognized, and Palestine was rebuilt from rubble with massive aid, it feels like things are ‘written into a corner’ and there is just too much radicalization and spilled blood for two hypothetical states to leave each other alone.
And being under the same state will remove that tension?
No.
I’m not really sure what a good solution is anymore. We hold Israel severely accountable (which is apparently impossible :/), but then what?
The most plausible path forward I see is the Native American model from the USA.
Genocide and ethnically cleanse the target population into progressively smaller reservations. (Israel is here)
Sign treaties recognizing the target population as a sovereign entity existing within the borders and legal framework of the parent nation.
targeted population demilitarized. It’s people become increasingly integrated into the parent nation.
Civil rights movement for members of the targeted population within the parent nation.
Develop an esoteric field of law clarifying what “sovereign entity existing within the borders and legal framework of the parent nation” even means.
Gradually chip away at the targeted population through a combination of progressively narrowing the scope of law covered in (5), and the natural integration of the targeted population into the host population (US is here)
Are the Palestinians at least going to get some casinos in a couple hundred years?