The designation of a Palestinian state is simply a moral work and a recipe for peace in the mediate East. If the planet wants to convince the future Israeli authorities that the Palestinians should have full political rights, a fresh wave of formal designation of Palestine by the countries that would follow the example of Spain, Ireland and Norway is necessary.
However, in order for this fresh wave not to pass without an echo like a storm in a glass of performative symbolism, supporters of this solution request to make clear that the Palestinian State cannot be a mirroring reflection of Israel or a way to separate the Jews from the Palestinians.
Let us overlook the sad fact that no deliriumt fresh Israeli authorities are willing to negociate a fair peace, and the Palestinians have no leadership with a democratic mandate to represent them. Imagine, however, that specified dialog would begin. What principles would it gotta govern to make everyone believe that it will bring a fair consequence to everyone, regardless of ethnic, religious, and linguistic, from the river (Jordan) to the sea (Mediterranean)?
Great Israel has always had a beef with the principles of justice and justice, for Israel refuses Palestinian citizens, which is 20% of society, full equality, wanting to hold its state position exclusively Jewish (not just Israeli). The creation of an exclusively Palestinian state alongside Israel will not solve the problem in any way. What would be the destiny of Jews who settled (illegally) in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem if Palestine had established a state made up exclusively of Palestinian Arabs?
There was besides an thought of population exchange, like the tragic resettlement of cultural Greeks and Turks after the war between 1919 and 1922. Are we out of our minds? A 100 years after cultural cleansing, the descendants of these peoples proceed to mourn the lost homeland. Do we truly want to encourage a akin disaster? Another mass eradication in the name of peace and justice?
Let us imagine that, like Israel, a Palestinian state would choose to build closed roads, connecting areas that are alienated by Palestinians (e.g. a closed road between the West Bank and Gaza) or roads exclusively for Palestinians, to connect areas inhabited by Palestinians in Israel with a fresh Palestinian state. Closed roads built by Israel in order to merge areas inhabited by Jews service as walls that, as could have been predicted, defender Palestinians. After all, it is not possible to build fresh closed roads, connecting Palestinians and the Jews.
Or may Israeli settlers hold dual citizenship within a Palestinian state, and Palestinian citizens in Israel could get it for a change? It sounds reasonable, but how would Jews in Palestine and Palestinians in Israel be certain that they would not be treated as a social subclass? How could a number be prevented from being treated by national safety services as a problem that needs to be tackled and even eliminated in the future? In short, how to avoid replacing 1 apartheid countries by 2 neighbouring countries based on the same apartheid?
Many Palestinians, after years of occupation, may feel the temptation to request the expulsion of all judaic settlers from the Palestinian state. There will most likely besides be those for whom statehood is the most important, and that is why they will be satisfied with a two-state solution with apartheid. But is it truly worth fighting for specified goals? Will specified a Palestine be able to gain global favour without which Palestinians cannot hope for a fair peace?
If the Palestinians' goal was a Palestinian state alone, I uncertainty they would get support from South Africa, from where they came from, raised in the humanism of Nelson Mandela, lawyers who with specified a feud They went against Israel in The Hague. A imagination of pro-Palestinian student protests in the US, Norway, Spain, Ireland and many another European countries is simply a imagination of equality, not a symmetrical right to impose apartheid.
Separating Jews from Palestinians is an thought contrary to human rights, due to the fact that it would require mass relocation or being treated as a second category population. Therefore, both sides must halt demanding an exclusionary state – only judaic or Palestinian-Arabic.
This does not mean that the life of the Jews is to be reduced to any extent, nor that the Palestinians should renounce their ambitions of their own statehood. This means that the establishment of an Israeli and Palestinian state without tight borders must be pursued so that both nations have the right to self-determination guaranteed. In order for this to work well, Confederate institutions would gotta stand up for equality of rights. Finally, specified an agreement would require the granting of double citizenship to all. This would guarantee that human rights are respected, which the global South demands (in individual of highly volatile South African lawyers) and which the global North pretends to respect.
How do we accomplish this? possibly the fact is hidden in a well-known Irish mot “I wouldn’t start from here” (I would not begin here), but I feel that the answer has already been found by Jews, Muslims, and others who run against anti-Semitism and genocide at the same time. Like the Israelis, so the Palestinians must admit 3 types of pain: the pain Europe has caused to Jews for centuries, the pain that Israel has caused to Palestinians for 8 decades, and the pain that Palestinians and Jews have caused each another in the venomous shadow of war and resistance.
Bombs are inactive falling, the war propaganda device is thundering, so it is hard to imagine any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy. However, this may prove our inability, since we cannot imagine the creation of 2 states that aim to bring the 2 nations closer together, alternatively than their final, complete separation.
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Copyright: task Syndicate, 2024. www.project-syncicate.org. From English she translated Dorota Blabolil-Obrębska.
