DAMOCLEAN DANGLER:

A one-state solution for Palestinians and Israelis: If the aim of the peace process is to resolve the conflict properly, then only this approach tackles the root of the problem. (Ghada Karmi, May 30, 2008, CS Monitor)

[T]he two-state solution reflects only Israeli interests. It proposes to partition historic Palestine – an area that includes present-day Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem – massively and inequitably in favor of Israel as a Jewish state. By definition, this rules out possibility of Palestinian return except to the tiny, segmented West Bank territory that Israeli colonization has created, and to an overcrowded Gaza, which cannot accommodate the returnees. Thus the "peace process" is really about making the Palestinians concede their basic rights to accommodate Israel's demands.

It also panders to Israel's paranoia over "demography," an ambiguous term that refers to the morally repugnant wish to preserve Israel's Jewish ethnic purity.

But the two-state solution's biggest flaw is that it ignores the main cause of the conflict: the Palestinian dispossession of 1948.

Almost uniquely on the pro-Israel Right, Ariel Sharon understood that you had to create Palestine before they figured this out.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 1, 2008 6:56 PM