Annapolis Kaputski
January 25, 2008, by Diane V. McLoughlin
The two-state solution is kaput.
Kaput: Utterly finished, defeated, or destroyed;
unable to function; hopelessly outmoded
(Merriam-Webster OnLine.)
Israel has taken by military force the vast majority of
the lands. The Palestinians live in prison villages
surrounded by barbed wire, guns and tanks - not
unlike the bantustans blacks were coralled into in
Apartheid South Africa.
The illegal Jewish settlements on stolen Palestinian
lands make it impossible to propose that Jews and
Palestinians could live apart in two countries - they
don't and can't.
The difference is critical to understanding: The Jews
have a preferred first-class status and can move about
freely, while the Palestinians are second-class and
cannot.
The United States' experience with the abolition of
slavery demonstrates that people can rise above
misguided notions of racial superiority to embrace
equality in the spirit of the brotherhood of man.
If Israel chooses the other option, the continued
ethnic 'cleansing' of the land of the Palestinians, they
might do it. They might. But although the Jews
would then possess the physical place of Eretz Israel,
they will have paid for it at the cost of Israel's soul.
From that day forward, no good thing would ever be
enough to redeem it.
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Originally published here: ToTheCenter.com;
November, 2007.
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January 25, 2008, by Diane V. McLoughlin
The two-state solution is kaput.
Kaput: Utterly finished, defeated, or destroyed;
unable to function; hopelessly outmoded
(Merriam-Webster OnLine.)
Israel has taken by military force the vast majority of
the lands. The Palestinians live in prison villages
surrounded by barbed wire, guns and tanks - not
unlike the bantustans blacks were coralled into in
Apartheid South Africa.
The illegal Jewish settlements on stolen Palestinian
lands make it impossible to propose that Jews and
Palestinians could live apart in two countries - they
don't and can't.
The difference is critical to understanding: The Jews
have a preferred first-class status and can move about
freely, while the Palestinians are second-class and
cannot.
The United States' experience with the abolition of
slavery demonstrates that people can rise above
misguided notions of racial superiority to embrace
equality in the spirit of the brotherhood of man.
If Israel chooses the other option, the continued
ethnic 'cleansing' of the land of the Palestinians, they
might do it. They might. But although the Jews
would then possess the physical place of Eretz Israel,
they will have paid for it at the cost of Israel's soul.
From that day forward, no good thing would ever be
enough to redeem it.
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Originally published here: ToTheCenter.com;
November, 2007.
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