Jack Ross’s book says that the idea of the two-state solution was radical 30 years ago. Of course now everyone believes in it the way they believe in motherhood and the family and the flag. And it’s as mythical as a unicorn. Dimi Reider at +972. Why isn’t this in the New York Times, all over the front page. Notice Reider blasting the American government. Sweet.
Naturally, this massive expansion – doubling the settlements in size overnight – is meant precisely to cement the future and ensure the Jordan Valley will remain forever under Israeli control. This does not bode well for those of us who still believe anyone has any intention of allowing a sovereign Palestinian state with control of its own borders and economy to appear here. But almost no one bothers pretending that anymore, so we were even spared pretences from the American Administration that they care / could do anything if they cared.On top of that, the casual appearance of the doubling of the size of settlements in a such a strategically vital area in a financial daily rather than on the front pages of the newspapers teaches us a great deal about just how normalised the occupation of the valley has become in the Israeli mind.
