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What these developments highlight is that "one-state" is not inherently
superior over "two states" in all cases. Both have their dangers, both
can be Zionist or non-Zionist versions. Arguably, two states are not
viable as a long-term "solution," but before getting to a full-scale
solution, any number of options are possible as stages in struggle. The
idea of the Palestinians achieving independent political authority in a
West Bank-Gaza-Jerusalem state, via a mixture of military, civil,
diplomatic etc struggle (as, let's say, a temporary stage towards
dismantling Israeli apartheid), may seem unrealistic, but I doubt it is
less realistic than getting a one-state solution of a democratic type
any time soon. Probably more realistic. But perhaps less realistic than
this Zionist version of one-state. Where the one-state solution is not
South Africa at end of apartheid in 1994 but South Africa at onset of it
in 1948, with the difference that the Palestinians will be locked in as
a permanent minority via ethnic cleansing, denial of return etc, thus
without even the potential of South Africa's Black majority. Watch what
you wish for.
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From: Marv Gandall via Marxism
Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 9:20 PM
To: Michael Karadjis
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Israel moves closer to a single-state solution
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On Sep 2, 2014, at 12:43 AM, Dayne Goodwin via Marxism
<marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
I think that the discussion on the Israeli 'right' which Marv shared
with us, is discussion about how an enlarged Israel could still keep
the remaining Palestinians legally repressed as it already is doing in
fully Israel controlled territory. It might come to pass that Israel
has to do something like this for some time while it still presses
steadily forward with ethnic cleansing, just as it works steadily now
to take control of remaining Palestinian land within the 1948 borders
and press remaining Palestinians to emigrate.
That will depend on whether it becomes necessary for the Zionists to do
so. Indigenous populations are not always liquidated or expelled; many
remain subordinated and segregated within the boundaries of the colonial
settler state after having been driven off the best land. I suppose you
could describe this as a kind of internal ethnic cleansing. But the most
fascistic Zionists have to take into account that Israel, a latecomer to
colonialism in an age when this is no longer the norm, is under the
microscope and international political and economic pressure can be
brought to bear against it when its brutal treatment of the Palestinians
becomes especially egregious and arouses world opinion. I think the
right-wing Zionists are counting on the birthrate of their religious
fundamentalist base outstripping that of the West Bank Palestinians
coupled with the fact there is no way they are going to include Gaza or
readmit the Palestinian refugee masses outside the occupied territories
into a Greater Israel. This all presupposes, of course, that no
threatening third intifada or war with neighbouring states erupts in
which case both the necessity and pretext for further mass expulsion
would quickly reappear on the agenda.
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