Israel approves controversial West Bank settlement project

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg30l6myj3o

by mhga • 11 months ago

49 21 11 months ago

So evidently a two state solution is off the table, and once all the Palestinians are driven away, a one state solution will become acceptable to Israel.

Is there some other way this could play out?

SilverElfin• 11 months ago

Weren’t all two state proposals in the past rejected by one Palestinian leader or the other?

FridayoLeary• 11 months ago

Anyway the idea basically died on October 7.

EdwardDiego2• 11 months ago

Only one Palestinian authority was recognized in the Oslo Accords as representing Palestine, and they've supported it since 1982.

Which is why Israel funded Hamas to weaken the PLO.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

nielsbot4• 11 months ago

I imagine it will play out similarly to the genocide of the Native Americans: Ethnically cleansed or genocided. Any stragglers will live on reservations or the equivalent. Palestinians living under Israeli control will be subject to apartheid a la the Jim Crow South in the US.

I still have a slim hope that this outcome will be averted, but the odds of that lessen by the day.

burnt-resistor2• 11 months ago

Long-term Palestinian refugee camps are/were essentially urban reservations. Some have existed for decades and look kind of like cities. They are/were really, really small areas with very high density. Sort of like a concentration camp too.

burnt-resistor2• 11 months ago

If you think about it, a "two state solution" results in the a continuation of de facto apartheid. Israel controls identity cards, vehicle registration, and the civil registry of births and deaths. There's basically no way for Palestinians to have a complete and independent country at this point, and this is a shame and a crime that was intended.

The only viable, long-term, stable solution is abandonment of Zionism for a one state solution with a secular democracy that doesn't selectively enfranchise or disenfranchise people based on religious, ethnic, or racial identity. The problem right now is that millions of people are part of a cult and cult-adjacent who harbor beliefs of ethno-nationalist supremacy. History proves time and again that ethno-nationalist sentiment leads to war, murder, and genocide.

nielsbot4• 11 months ago

Israel approves controversial West Bank settlement project

Israel approves patently illegal West Bank settlement project

Israel approves controversial West Bank settlement project

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