Saturday, November 15, 2008

ONE STATE SOLUTION


In Israel, Avraham Burg, former speaker of the Knesset, recently warned that if Israel wishes to preserve what little democracy it still has, it must either
  • withdraw to its pre-1967 boundaries or
  • grant full citizenship to the approximately 3.5 million Palestinians in the occupied territories,
a step that would spell the virtual end of the Jewish state.


Meron Benvenisti, the former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, has pronounced the
  • two-state approach "inapplicable" to the problem of Israel and Palestine and is
  • calling for a single binational state based on Arab-Jewish equality.

In the United States the historian Tony Judt, declaring the Middle East peace process a dead letter in The New York Review of Books, says that the very idea of
  • a Jewish state has become an "anachronism" in a multicultural world in which citizenship is increasingly separated from race, religion and ethnicity.
  • "In today's 'clash of cultures' between open, pluralist democracies and belligerently intolerant, faith-driven ethno-states," he adds,

  • '"Israel actually risks falling into the wrong camp."

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