Every settlement acceptable to the Israelis requires the Palestinians to ratify their own ethnic cleansing. Every settlement acceptable to the Palestinians would fatally compromise Israel as a Jewish state. There is no way to break the impasse and, as we learned in ‘90s, powerful extremist elements on both sides are willing to do anything necessary to prevent compromises.
A one-state solution would require Israel to either abandon democracy or give up their ethnostate. A two-state solution is made impossible by Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, and no political faction in Israel has enough power to repatriate the settlers to Israel.
The means that would be required of Israel to end the terrorist threat by violence are not within the range of options being considered by even the most extreme Israeli policymakers, but there is no non-violent way to end the threat either. There is a reason Israeli officials have referred to their periodic military assaults on Gaza as “mowing the lawn.”
The sad truth is that it is practically guaranteed that we will end up right back where we were before Hamas’ attack, only w/more hatred, more grievances on both sides, and more dead Israelis and Palestinians.
Don’t know what to tell you, I’ll not your guy if you’re looking for optimism on this issue.
A one-state solution would require Israel to either abandon democracy or give up their ethnostate. A two-state solution is made impossible by Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, and no political faction in Israel has enough power to repatriate the settlers to Israel.
The means that would be required of Israel to end the terrorist threat by violence are not within the range of options being considered by even the most extreme Israeli policymakers, but there is no non-violent way to end the threat either. There is a reason Israeli officials have referred to their periodic military assaults on Gaza as “mowing the lawn.”
The sad truth is that it is practically guaranteed that we will end up right back where we were before Hamas’ attack, only w/more hatred, more grievances on both sides, and more dead Israelis and Palestinians.
Don’t know what to tell you, I’ll not your guy if you’re looking for optimism on this issue.
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