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Palestine: creative compromises can conquer conflict : Comments

By David Singer, published 14/1/2013

In the end, the Resolution does not change the Palestinians lives on the ground, and it does not 'recognise' Palestine as a state.

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For once I think I may be in agreement with David. Creative compromises can indeed conquer conflict.
But what is being proposed? That Gaza becomes part of Egypt? Does Egypt want that, and would it mean that the sea-port and airport in Gaza were allowed to operate unhindered by any Israeli control whether overt or covert? Would Israel agree to that?
And does it mean that all of the occupied land in the west bank would become part of Jordan? Does Jordan want that, and would it mean that all vestiges of Israeli control and occupation (think settlements here, including those in, say, Hebron and on the Golan Heights) would disappear. Would Israel agree to that?
And say all this came to pass. Wouldn't that mean a return to the situation prior to 1967, a sort of status quo ante bellum? And if so, what, please, has the last 50 years of fratricidal kerfuffle been for?
Posted by halduell, Monday, 14 January 2013 9:32:42 AM
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<<And if so, what, please, has the last 50 years of fratricidal kerfuffle been for?>>

Supplying an endless stream of news for the bored West - how can you be so ungrateful, Halduell?
Posted by Yuyutsu, Monday, 14 January 2013 11:09:39 AM
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How about the 300,000 Russian frauds go home, how about the 500,000 illegal squatters go home to their nice safe countries and stop persecuting the Palestinians.

Fair dinkum, David Singer is an Israel shill broken record with no interest in the human rights of anyone but the Israel jews.
Posted by Marilyn Shepherd, Monday, 14 January 2013 4:03:10 PM
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This is yet another piece of creative hypocrisy and mischievous nonsense by the Singer.

The Singer is full of ideas as long as none of them actually entail the Palestinians ending up with their own sovereign State within the 1967 borders, its own Armed Forces, and the right of return and generous compensation for dispossession and sixty years of relentless Israeli humiliation and genocide.

The only proper solution is for Israel to be disbanded and relocated to another country. The country where they would be most at home would be the imperial USA, a nation which is just a larger and more brutal replica of Israel!
Posted by David G, Monday, 14 January 2013 4:08:27 PM
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Not so keen on giving them a new location for their racist "homeland" (especially Australia!). Wherever it was the racists would be grabgrabgrabbing their neighbours' land. The world doesn't need an ethnocracy anywhere, for any real or invented ethnic group (even the Celts!). Israel could conceivably be confined to 1967 borders for now, but justice and peace are not served until it is behind its 1935 borders and the 4 million Jews born in today's Israel remain as equal citizens in a democratic, non-racist, secular state of all Palestine. Where to accommodate the 2 million foreign-born settlers could be up for negotiation.

That's the creative compromise to be negotiated, with Hamas obliged to recognise that an Islamic state just isn't on and likewise Zionists being obliged to recognise that neither is an ethnocracy. Two cultures, both obsessed with being uniquely God-chosen, having to realise that nobody is.

The 1935 borders? Can't find them? Neither can I.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Monday, 14 January 2013 11:40:27 PM
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I wish to congratulate Palestinian Emad Burnat and Israeli Guy Davidi for having their documentary '5 broken cameras' nominated for Best Documentary Feature in this year's Academy Awards.

Here is the film's website.
http://www.kinolorber.com/5brokencameras/

And the Guardian's review.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/oct/18/5-broken-cameras-review

Sometimes 'creative collaborations can conquer conflict' just as effectively.
Posted by csteele, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 11:39:41 AM
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