> > Once the fiction of a separate Palestinian state is revealed to have no > more substance than the Wizard of Oz — which the E1 plan will all but > guarantee — those Palestinians who have not already done so will commit > themselves to the only viable alternative: a one-state solution, in which > the idea of an exclusively Jewish state and an exclusively Palestinian one > will yield to what was really all along the preferable alternative, a > single democratic and secular state in all of historical Palestine that > both peoples will have to share as equal citizens. > > A campaign for rights and equality in a single state is a project toward > which the Palestinians will now be able to turn with the formidable > international support they have already developed at both the diplomatic > and the grassroots levels, including a global boycott and sanctions > movement whose bite Israel has already felt. > > For Palestinians, in any case, one state is infinitely preferable to two, > for the simple reason that no version of the two-state solution that has > ever been proposed has meaningfully sought to address the rights of more > than the minority of Palestinians who actually live in the territory on > which that state is supposed to exist. > > The majority of Palestinians live either in the exile to which they were > driven from their homes during the creation of Israel in 1948, or as > second-class citizens of Israel, where they face formidable obstacles as > non-Jews in a state that reserves a full spectrum of rights only for Jews. > > For Palestinians, the right to return home and the right to live in > dignity and equality in their own land are not any less important than the > right to live free of military occupation. A separate state addressed only > the latter, but there can never be a just and lasting peace that does not > address all those rights ...
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