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Palestine: reunification trumps confederation : Comments

By David Singer, published 28/12/2012

The two-state solution to the Jewish-Arab conflict proposed under the Oslo Accords and the Bush Roadmap is rapidly turning out to be nothing but a mirage.

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Re-uniting Israel and Palestine would be a good idea - but what would you call it: Palerael or Isestine?
Posted by Candide, Friday, 28 December 2012 9:21:32 AM
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Everyone will notice that the Singer never talks about Israel returning to the 1967 borders or the 'Right of Return' of the Palestinians or the payment of compensation to dispossessed Palestinians or the creation of a completely sovereign Palestinian State with its own military.

Then he never, but never mentions the occupation and blockade either, or the constant humiliation of the Palestinians people, or the fact that family after family is being thrown from their homes so the Israelis can demolish them and build new settlements, or the keeping of taxes belonging to the Palestinians, or the deliberate impoverishment of the Palestinians, or the gradual annexing of Jerusalem, etc, etc.

But the Singer is keen to talk about any possibility that the Palestinians would be absorbed by some other nation leaving the Israeli Jews with complete control over what used to be Palestine.

The Singer uses every artifice in the Machiavellian book to promote the racist Jewish State and to diminish or trivialize or neutralize the long-suffering Palestinians.

His never-ending flood of duplicitous, pro-Israeli propaganda is nauseating!
Posted by David G, Friday, 28 December 2012 9:49:48 AM
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Absolutely agree with David G. Negotiating with the racists the disposition of the Bantustans will never be a goer - it's a surrender process, not a peace process. The only solution is RETURN and DEMOCRACY.

*RETURN of the exiles to their homeland
*RETURN of the foreign settlers to theirs
*DEMOCRACY - a secular, non-racist democratic state from the Mediterranean to the Jordan border for those who belong there by birth or by proven DIRECT descent from identified individuals born there.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Friday, 28 December 2012 10:32:49 AM
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The two state solution was always a non-starter, an attempt to perpetuate what was grabbed in an initial act of colonisation, enlarged by constant wars of attrition and ethnic cleansing and fuelled by a propaganda machine feeding a guilt industry the likes of which the world has never seen.
But slowly the world community is belling the Zionist cat.
There is only one state in what is now a divided Palestine. Call it Israel, call it Palestine, it matters not. Sooner or later there will be that one state stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River with a full right of return for those who once lived there (including their descendants), and a government of one person/one vote letting the seats fall where they may.
Anything else, or anything less, is contrary to natural justice and will eventually be exposed as such.
Jordan is a legislated myth. It will revert to being part of Syria, or of Saudi Arabia.
Posted by halduell, Friday, 28 December 2012 11:29:20 AM
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Another excellent post. As Jordan's population is currently approx 80% 'Palistinian', it would seem sensible to unite all of the Palistinian people in one state.

Whilst discussing the 'right of return' and/or compensation, despite UN definition of a 'refugee' being only recognised as those originally dispossessed, I am sure that that those discussions will also includes all Jews dispossessed from their homes in Jordan, Lebanon, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Egypt etc. etc. etc?
Posted by Prompete, Friday, 28 December 2012 12:05:38 PM
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Of course any person, whether Jewish or not, having been dispossessed of a home in Jordan, Lebanon, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Egypt etc. etc. etc as mentioned by Prompete should have a right of return.
It is worth noting, however, that it is one thing to be dispossessed, and another to emigrate.
Posted by halduell, Friday, 28 December 2012 12:35:39 PM
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