But, for all its optimism, lets not forget that this still is an occupation, and every aspect of Palestinian life can be changed and/or destroyed at a whim of the occupation administration with no explanation what-so-ever, and if, God forbid, some crazy subsection of settlers were to start coveting any of the land here, the skies would darken in no time at all.

I always believed that Israeli Arabs should participate in democratic processes of State of Israel. It would not change their position very much, but it would be a breeding ground for new political generation of future leaders.

Those who think that apartheid and buntustans are the only option for "security" reasons, but in fact just want Arabs to become invisible, must work really hard not to have too many such articles appear in the press.

In fact, the ONLY quote from a Palestinian comes from a Colonel Asideh, who has just been bribed with "new Land Rovers." Of course he's in a chirpy mood, as he roars round the ruins in his new hot wheels.

But we hear nothing from the Israeli Arabs being allowed to cross the border (though without their cars — always the need the twist the knife a bit), or the Palestinians they interact with. Bronner assures us that they are contented — verily, like happy darkies on Ol' Massa's plantation — but I ain't so sure.

So true, Richard, so true.

Hamas is of course referred to as a "Palestinian militant group" as opposed to the democratically-elected government that it is, and the fact that it is "relatively weak" is the first and most prominent reason given for the success.

The article basically describes a situation in which Israeli power has created a livable situation for all. "Terrorists" (Palestinian groups, of course) are magnified ("early on Wednesday morning, for example, Israeli soldiers and security men raided a home in Jenin and detonated a 30-pound pipe bomb."), while Israeli brutality is glossed over (the "settlements" and the "barrier" are a major source of "friction.")

I laughed, too, when I read that the organic produce was going to be GROWN by the Palestinians and MARKETED in Europe by the Israelis.

I mean, again, I understand trying to find some good in all the crap that's going on, but this article would seem to be nothing more than another piece of seemingly well-structured Zionist propaganda.

Sometimes the stories are even true. The Great Liquidation really did benefit Palestinians but the result was inadvertent and viewed very negatively by the leaders of the Yishuv, the Zionist leadership in the UK and "Our Crowd" in NY city. Carefully reading of Ben-Gurion's writings and diaries indicates that preventing such unintended consequences of investment in Palestine was part of the reason for his positive view of the Peel Commission's proposal.

Unfortunately, until Jews fully assimilate the idea that Zionism is wrong and evil and that Jews today are at least as much a Taetervolk as Germans ever were during the Hitler years, show remorse and make complete reparations for all the crimes they have committed and all the damage they have caused (including against the victims of Soviet communism), we have to assume that Zionists will someday in the future once again engage in an orgy of mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide against the native populations of the ME.

BTW, in Judonia I discuss the general reason why Palestinians have been so resistant in comparison with ethnic Ashkenazim (and other populations) to compulsory population transfer although not specifically the Peel Plan.

As the Polish state slowly dissolved and Poland ceased to be Poland any longer from the Jewish standpoint, ethnic Ashkenazim began to feel that they were in exile in their Polish homeland without having relocated, and they found it a lot easier to contemplate emigration to Western Europe, to the Americas, to the Central Russian provinces or to Palestine. A similar feeling probably facilitated the Greek Bulgarian Turkish population exchanges in the aftermath of WW 1 as old imperial states were replaced by newer more ethnically oriented states and traditional territories began to feel alien while new ethnic centers exerted a pull on communities living outside the new boundaries.[xxvi]

Because Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish leaders assumed that leaving homes and villages was similarly easy for all populations, they dreamed especially during the 1930s but even to this day of reaching some sort of final agreement with Palestinians by settling them in some other Arab country.

Because the cultural and ethnic centers for Palestinians are Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Ramallah, and Hebron but not Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Karbala, Ramadi, or Samara, Palestinians were never going to agree to transfer to Iraq or some other Arabic territory. (See Baksheesh Diplomacy, Secret Negotiations Between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of world War II,[160] by Rafael Medoff, pp. 61-62.)By contrast removing the entire Zionist population of stolen and occupied Palestine would not be difficult today and most would probably welcome it. Because Neocons acting as a Jewish special interest have managed to manipulate the US government into causing the dislocation of about 11 million Arabs and Muslims since the start of the Bush administration, relocating the Zionist population elsewhere really should be part of the discussion and is really the best solution to the problem of Zionism and would cripple or perhaps even cripple the ability of the Zionist intelligentsia to mobilize Jewish political economic oligarchs and ordinary Jews to the harm of the USA.

The ability of Zionist intelligentsia to create Jewish groupthink or to drive Jews to do things they know to be wrong may be the greatest threat that the USA faces today.

I remember a story that Dr. Jay Gonen recounts — I believe — in The Psychohistory of Zionism. When the Palestinian Zionist leadership ordered a boycott of Palestinian produce and the Palestinian egg vendor came by that day, she bought something 3-5 times as many eggs as she needed while she cried the whole time. She told him not to come again and was still crying in the evening when Dr. Gonen's father came home. Mrs. Gonen knew that the boycott was wrong, but she obeyed anyway. In the same situation, a German, Pole, or Russian was much more likely to disobey wrongful commands, and this sort of authoritarian behavior, which has deep roots in E. European ethnic Ashkenazi culture, persists to this day to the harm of Palestinians, the USA and the whole world.

Because of the Zionist indoctrination of Jewish education today (a major project of the Zionist intelligentsia and oligarchs), far too many Jews no longer have the ability (as Mrs. Gonen had) to understand that their actions are wrong.

You are aware that the business partners, the article talks about, are Arab Israelis? You think Bronner should have made that more explicit …? But wouldn't that be racist? Besides, what's wrong with a Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Palestinian cooperation, if e.g. a merchant with exquisite contacts on the European market offers his experience to specialized farmers? I think to sell on the European market, it has to be sold via Israel so far, anyway. But I am not 100% sure.

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My favorite passage – more!:

An example was on display last month when high school students in Gilboa took part in what may be the only one of its kind in the world — the finals for the Bible-Koran contest. Twelve teams, each made up of one Jew and one Arab, were asked questions in both Hebrew and Arabic about the holy books. A mixed team of Jewish and Muslim teachers acted as judges. An Israeli Arab was the master of ceremonies.