"If I Were a Palestinian"–Akiva Elder tells Palestinians to call for one democratic state between the river and the sea for all citizens, abolish the P.A., end the sham peace process (and give up the right of return):
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed his Czech
counterpart, Mirek Topolanek, that "if Israelis can't build homes in
the West Bank, then Palestinians shouldn't be allowed to either."
According to the principle of reciprocity, which has always been dear
to Netanyahu, all Palestinians, like all Jews, are welcome to build
their homes from now on anywhere between the sea and the Jordan River...
Were I a Palestinian, I would adopt the call of the
Israeli Declaration of Independence to "the Arab people, residents of
the State of Israel, to keep the peace and take part in building the
country on the basis of full and equal citizenship and on the basis of
appropriate representation in all its institutions, the temporary and
permanent ones."
These principles seem so commonplace in the west. That is the beauty of writing like this, it shocks a westerner who has accepted Jim Crow as the norm there. And in fairness: it took the U.S. 300 years to begin to recognize minority rights. Israel has to fast-track that process. But it won't until pieces like this begin to appear in the American press. (Why is the American press retrograde and the Israeli press a little open? Because of the Israel lobby.)
(Thanks to Ori Folger)
