Comment by givemeethekeys
2 years ago
What would you do if you were running the show in Israel? You’re responsible for a group of people that none of your neighbors want, even if they are the same race, ethnicity and religion, and those people have an ongoing campaign to push you out, which has been unsuccessful for as long as it has been going on. Oh yeah, their population is now many multiples higher than when all this started.
The literal answer is that I would resign and move to another country. Given that I've moved to another country a few times already, I'm fairly sure I would do that in the situation you describe.
Answering more to the spirit of the question: I believe that the situation between Israel and Palestinians is broken and can't be fixed until something unexpected happens. Neither side has an acceptable way forward.
As a rule of thumb, people who talk about right and wrong don't want peace. Those concepts are far more useful for justifying wars than ending them. Peace is achieved by compromises that make both parties lose interest in the war. There was a genuine desire for peace in the 90s, but it failed, because nobody could find an acceptable compromise. The leaders of both parties realized that the sacrifices required to make the compromise acceptable to the other side were worse than status quo.
What would I do? Abandon the racist and outdated ethnostate ideal, which is dying all over the world anyway, and enfranchise "those people". Instead of "two people, two states", choose "one land, one humanity". This is the only way we don't all end up nuking each other.
> one land, one humanity
Now, remember - you are running Israel. And, most people on the right agree with you that there should just be one land, one humanity.
But, the folks in the camps - they don't want to surrender and accept citizenship to your "one land, one humanity" country.
They were never given half the chance, so you don't really know.
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Yitzhak Rabin had some good ideas, but extremist factions in Israel (now led by Netanyahu) killed him off.
So, what would you do?
Withdraw all the Israeli population within the 1967 borders. Build a few hundred metres wide separation zone between the two and ask the UN to guard it. Go to the UN and ask for the creation of a State of Palestine. Meet with ANP and Hamas representatives and tell them that you want peace, that their side of the land is theirs, and that you're going to help. Seek to arrange some land swap to create a viable territorial continuity between the West Bank and Gaza.
I don't know maybe give me unfettered access to all the NSAs data and I'll get back to you.
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