Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumThe Bennett-Bibi era of ‘no solution’
The political system organized around this narrative, which from a critical, retrospective view looks like a methodical lie. But all of this was shattered when Bennett revealed his view that Israel and the Palestinians are not in a process leading anywhere. Israel will not return territories, and the Palestinians other than about 50,000 whom Bennett proposes giving Israeli citizenship to are to simply remain under Israeli control. In other words, millions of stateless people will live under Israeli military rule.
Following Bennett, and apparently in an effort to appeal to Bennetts Habayit Hayehudi electorate, Netanyahu declared a few days before the March 17 Knesset election that if he was reelected, there would be no Palestinian state. The election therefore was dominated by the possibility articulated by Bennett and adopted by the prime minister of continued military control over the Palestinian people until further notice, and without apology. In light of the new diplomatic option placed on the map of reality, the political system had to reorganize.
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.655471
The author maintains that it is impossible for this to be the case, and it cannot be that there is no solution. This is morality, not reality unfortunately. There is no credible means by which the Israel's military rule and control over the Palestinians will end. There is neither the internal will nor the external intervening forces required to do so.
Pursuing the "no solution" approach definitely has its costs, in that it will eventually lead within a century or two of the Jewish state of Israel disappearing entirely to be replaced by a binational state. But that doesn't mean it won't happen.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)A One-State-solution would incorporate troublemakers. A Two-State-solution would give away control over precious land.
But as it is right now, Israel enjoys peace and prosperity at the tolerable cost of having to bomb Gaza every few years.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Netanyahu, Bennett and their voters are cut from the same fabric as the Afrikaaners, so not hard to see things going that path.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)reasonable people may impose on you. The intervening forces could certainly do damage
geek, I would not underestimate them.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Israel's absolute unwillingness to let the Palestinians be free to make their own decisions is the obstacle, and that will not change.
Power, control, force and domination are what Israelis see as the foundation to security. So, a negotiated settlement creating a Palestinian state of any kind would undermine the pillars of their entire security strategy.
They view the Palestinians as feral creatures who can only live in peace if they are locked in a cage--we've all seen the "cultural" smear on the Palestinians as their pretext for continuing the occupation.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)major settlement blocs and who I am referring to in being complicit in an imposed deal
through a resolution that will have everyone on board..that leaves them without a viable
state..that could very well happen. Everyone on board except the Palestinian citizens,
counting on Abbas would be a mistake.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)part of Israel is a fraud.