17, July
2020 Israel MUST EMBRACE SINGLE STATE WITH EQUAL RIGHTS
The Balfour Declaratio17, July 2020 Israel MUST EMBRACE SINGLE STATE WITH EQUAL RIGHTS
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by
the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing support
for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in
Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population
and a significantly larger indigenous Palestinian population. The
declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United
Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the
British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great
Britain and Ireland. Fast forward to the global “Black
Lives Matter” movement. Palestinians have eagerly embraced the symbolism with
large banners “Palestinian Lives Matter’ on prominent display in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.
Since its
birth Israel has displaced the local indigenous Palestinian population by brute
force supported by $billions in US military and economic aid prodded by AIPAC
and other powerful Jewish organizations.
In the
midst of the grinding Coronavirus and crippling economy more and more Americans,
including Senator Bernie Sanders, are calling for a complete halt to further unconditional
aid to Israel which enjoys a significantly higher standard of living than the
US.
For
decades, Israel has encouraged illegal settlers to occupy more and more Palestinian
land and fulfill its dream of creating a “greater Israel,” closely resembling
former apartheid South Africa.
About 640,000 illegal Jewish settlers now live in East Jerusalem
and the West Bank. Israeli and American governments now admit that a contiguous
Palestinian state has lost any sense of reality. Even the leaders of Israel’s
center-left parties no longer support such a fragmented Palestinian state.
The Trump-Kushner disastrous “peace plan” envisions an archipelago
of Palestinian towns, scattered across as little as 70 percent of the West
Bank, under tight Israeli military control, much like Bantustans of apartheid
South Africa. This is a profoundly cruel “remedy” perpetrated by Netanyahu’s
right wing government in close collaboration with the Trump administration. The only practical, equitable way forward is
ONE STATE where all Palestinians and Jews enjoy the SAME EQUAL RIGHTS
otherwise Israel’s claim to be a Jewish democratic state is patently absurd.
Highly respected writers, Peter Beinart, Yousef Munayyer and Edward Said, have long argued that
equality comes in the form of one state that includes Israel, the West Bank,
the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
Military checkpoints, special bypass roads for Jews and favored
energy and water rates should be tossed into the dustbin of history. The siege
of Gaza must be lifted and a peace initiative should be initiated by Israel and
soon to be President Biden to support a single state initiative to heal the
wounds of decades of horrific Israeli military occupation and multiple assaults
on Gaza.
Recent history provides convincing examples where such remedies
have been successfully implemented. A peace agreement between Protestant
Northern Ireland and a Catholic South ended decades of strife.
Another poignant example is the peaceful settlement between Hutus
and Tutsis in Rwanda. Rwanda is currently one of the most progressive states in
the African subcontinent. Decades of foreign “divide and rule” mischief (Britain
in Ireland), (Belgium in Rwanda) and the (US and Britain in Israel) was
responsible for creating death and misery for many millions of innocent victims.
For more go to,
http://callforsocialjustice.blogspot.com/
n was a public statement issued by
the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing support
for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in
Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population
and a significantly larger indigenous Palestinian population. The
declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United
Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the
British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great
Britain and Ireland. Fast forward to the global “Black
Lives Matter” movement. Palestinians have eagerly embraced the symbolism with
large banners “Palestinian Lives Matter’ on prominent display in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.
Since its
birth Israel has displaced the local indigenous Palestinian population by brute
force supported by $billions in US military and economic aid prodded by AIPAC
and other powerful Jewish organizations.
In the
midst of the grinding Coronavirus and crippling economy more and more Americans,
including Senator Bernie Sanders, are calling for a complete halt to further unconditional
aid to Israel which enjoys a significantly higher standard of living than the
US.
For
decades, Israel has encouraged illegal settlers to occupy more and more Palestinian
land and fulfill its dream of creating a “greater Israel,” closely resembling
former apartheid South Africa.
About 640,000 illegal Jewish settlers now live in East Jerusalem
and the West Bank. Israeli and American governments now admit that a contiguous
Palestinian state has lost any sense of reality. Even the leaders of Israel’s
center-left parties no longer support such a fragmented Palestinian state.
The Trump-Kushner disastrous “peace plan” envisions an archipelago
of Palestinian towns, scattered across as little as 70 percent of the West
Bank, under tight Israeli military control, much like Bantustans of apartheid
South Africa. This is a profoundly cruel “remedy” perpetrated by Netanyahu’s
right wing government in close collaboration with the Trump administration. The only practical, equitable way forward is
ONE STATE where all Palestinians and Jews enjoy the SAME EQUAL RIGHTS
otherwise Israel’s claim to be a Jewish democratic state is patently absurd.
Highly respected writers, Peter Beinart, Yousef Munayyer and Edward Said, have long argued that
equality comes in the form of one state that includes Israel, the West Bank,
the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
Military checkpoints, special bypass roads for Jews and favored
energy and water rates should be tossed into the dustbin of history. The siege
of Gaza must be lifted and a peace initiative should be initiated by Israel and
soon to be President Biden to support a single state initiative to heal the
wounds of decades of horrific Israeli military occupation and multiple assaults
on Gaza.
Recent history provides convincing examples where such remedies
have been successfully implemented. A peace agreement between Protestant
Northern Ireland and a Catholic South ended decades of strife.
Another poignant example is the peaceful settlement between Hutus
and Tutsis in Rwanda. Rwanda is currently one of the most progressive states in
the African subcontinent. Decades of foreign “divide and rule” mischief (Britain
in Ireland), (Belgium in Rwanda) and the (US and Britain in Israel) was
responsible for creating death and misery for many millions of innocent victims.
For more go to,
http://callforsocialjustice.blogspot.com/
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