I read Sheizaf as saying that the advocacy of some on the Zionist Right for giving voting rights to Palestinians will never come to anything. Do you disagree?
Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2014, at 7:31 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Though it should be noted that Sheizaf does not believe that they are > really serious, and believes that so long as Israeli does not face > significantly increased pressure, the choice of the Israeli political > system will continue to be “maintain the status quo while trying to > minimize its costs," and that if Israel ever faced enough pressure to force > it to abandon the status quo, Israeli Jews would decisively choose "two > state solution" over "one state solution that grants rights to > Palestinians." > > Conceivably. But it’s also conceivable that granting the Palestinians > formal citizenship would see their demands for equal rights channelled and > absorbed into the Israeli electoral system, encouraging their gravitation > towards parties like Balad and even Labour. As we know, granting democratic > rights (to vote, to form unions) is a two edged sword: it opens the door to > modest improvements within the system at the same time it saps more > militant resistance outside of it. Ruling classes often choose to > institutionalize disruptive and costly conflict in this way, and it may > well underlie the thinking of that segment of the Zionist right cited by > Sheizaf. I wouldn’t rule out any scenario. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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