The crisis. Josh Nathan-Kazis reports in the Forward on pro-Israel legislators pushing the one-state solution in Florida and South Carolina.
A resolution calling for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been adopted in two state legislatures and is headed for more.
Usually, such a call would be interpreted as a pro-Palestinian move that many fear could obliterate Israel as a Jewish state. But not in these cases. Instead, these resolutions are protests against U.S. efforts to implement a two-state solution, the endorsed policy of both the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
J Street is flipped out by the measures. This is from its blog (thanks to Paul Mutter). “Florida House, Senate pass troubling measures regarding Israel.” Notice the frank talk about demographics, Jewish majority.
Those who voted for the resolutions thinking they were simply expressing straightforward support for Israel probably had little clue that the language they endorsed contains the seeds of Israel’s destruction as a democratic state and Jewish homeland. Keeping “the entirety of the land” under Israeli control and granting all those who live there democratic rights (“one law for all people”) is actually the agenda of those who seek a “one-state solution” – a binational state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, better thought of as the end of Israel as we know it.
With the demographic data clearly telling us that the number of non-Jews will exceed the number of Jews over time, the formula passed by the Florida legislature leads inexorably to the eradication of Israel as a democratic national home for the Jewish people.
These Florida resolutions are good examples of what it looks like to hug a friend so tightly that you unintentionally suffocate him.
We urge both chambers of the Florida Legislature to revoke these egregiously-misguided resolutions and to support the only route to Israel being both Jewish and democratic – a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
There must have been some discussion, no? The Forward piece doesn’t mention any, except that the bill was written over “hours, not months.” Also the SC sponsor a Mormon, hope that’s not an omen of Mormon=Christian Zionist-ness.
I am hearing more and more folks who have been involved with this issue for decades (mostly non Jews) calling for a one state solution. A real shift taking place.
I’d love to see the Egyptian parliament voting for the right of women in Kansas to have abortions and state sponsored healthcare. It’s about as relevant as Florida’s legislature voting about the West Bank.
>> … the formula passed by the Florida legislature leads inexorably to the eradication of Israel as a
democratic national home for the Jewish people……religion-supremacist state and the re-birth of Israel as a secular, egalitarian and democratic state of and for all Israelis.
Why does Florida hate Israel?
Is Ben Ami a dupe, because he sure acts like one.
If many of us have the common knowledge of the
problems with the current 2 state solution, why
does he act so surprised that it is growing steam?
Ben Ami:“Those who voted for the resolutions thinking they were simply expressing straightforward support for Israel probably had little clue that the language they endorsed contains the seeds of Israel’s destruction as a democratic state and Jewish homeland. Keeping “the entirety of the land” under Israeli control and granting all those who live there democratic rights (“one law for all people”) is actually the agenda of those who seek a “one-state solution” – a binational state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, better thought of as the end of Israel as we know it.”
I think that many of these 2 staters are afraid of having any Palestinians live in the same neighborhood as their Jewish kin. The General Shlomo Gazit on the MSNBC panels (Clip 3) reinforced that they want these Palestinians far away from the state of Israel. As if they were just trash that they wanted sent on a barge somewhere. It was a window into the crude reality of the rotten Israeli general and the greater Israeli view.