There is no peace process. There is no two state solution. It’s over. The idea that we continue at a time in which there are now 500,000 Israelis living on what’s supposed to be the future Palestinian land. And the fact that that number is growing at an accelerated pace– there’s nothing left of Palestine…
It’s over. So this notion of well, ‘we need to figure out a way to revive the peace process…’ Don’t believe it. The peace process is nothing more than a waste of time, so that the rest of the land can become gobbled up.
Oslo began, there were 100,000 settlers. Twenty years of the peace process has led to 500,000 settlers.
It’s over. The two state solution is over. There is no Palestine. there will not be a Palestine.
Aslan says the horrifying reality no one wanted is going to happen, the one state reality is upon us. The binational state, one state for two people, with clearly defined political rules, a president and a prime minister, a Palestinian president and an Israeli prime minister– power sharing ala Belgium, or in Northern Ireland.
It’s not going to be very clean in Israel Palestine either, but it’s happening…. I can’t sit here and continue to say what I’m almost contractually obligated to say as a Middle East analyst, which is, You must revive the two state process and get back to the negotiating table… No! There is no negotiating table, there is no negotiating to be done….
Obama’s line in the sand got crossed, and then his face was planted in the sand and spat upon, and he did nothing.
What the Israelis did to the United States when Obama was calling for an end to settlements was the most embarrassed moment Aslan had ever had as an American. We give $3 billion to a First World nation, $1200 per Israeli. And Obama was asking for Israel to follow international law, just for a little while, in exchange for some more money. The Israelis told him to “screw himself,” the lowest point in American power.
Everyone now knows who wears the pants in this relationship now. Everyone knows it…. And for a man like Obama to make the promises he made, and to fail so utterly and miserably.. [was] ultimately to put the death knell in the peace process.
Aslan refers to Obama’s veto of the anti-settlements resolution in the Security Council.
It’s time to start figuring out the one-state outcome.
It’s messy, it’s fraught with so many complications.. It will lead to bloodshed, of course. But there is no other option. It’s happening, it’s happening as we sit here anyway so we might as well start getting ready for it.
Aslan made similar comments in 2010.
Unpopular comments, which is why the coverage of this has been so quiet. I can’t say that I’ve followed his career extensively, but I have seen him in the news with regular frequency and not all related to his books. Yet I’ve missed this part, despite the fact that this conflict is of great personal interest to me.
So I’m guessing its the usual hatchet job of burying anything that contradicts the status quo. Good find, nonetheless. Let’s hope more people have the guts to call out the naked Emperor(always such a weird saying, which is why I enjoy saying it).
Anyone in control of their own brain has known for at least 10 years that the peace process is just a scam.
This charade is over and soon most people will be on board the equality and justice train aka 1ss.
Israel has worked hard to reach this point and should be rewarded richly for their efforts.
I just hope i live long enough to see the end of this scourge known as Zionism.
”Contractually obligated’ to say the peace process is alive,”
Yes, like Sharon in a coma and on a ventilator but brain dead and being called still alive.
Nothing to be done as far as I can see but proceed to One State, begin the fight against the apartheid conditions that will certainly bring about, and in 20-25 years or so the Palestines will regain control of their all their land.
@Phil
I don’t consider the 2 nations proposal he suggested unreasonable. It is not a preferred solution but if the Palestinians agreed to a sane version of that prime minister / president split that Reza Aslan proposed then if I were on the negotiating table I’d go for it. I’m glad he is willing to talk openly about how 500k (I think it is more like 600k) people is simply not going to be reversed.
He seems like a reasonable guy. I know he’s Iranian American and not Palestinian but I wish he were representing them.
Not sure what democratic Arab parties are being referred to in this but even a Arab consumer boycott helps add to the pressure. So this has potential.
”Israel loses eight billion dollars and Arab parties join the boycott”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/10590-israel-loses-eight-billion-dollars-and-arab-parties-join-the-boycott
Regarding the latest Palestinian efforts to escalate the settlement boycott, Barghouti revealed that an agreement has been made with 13 democratic Arab parties to form boycott committees in the Arab world.
In a statement to Quds Net News Agency on Thursday he said: “the European Union did not issue a decision to boycott Israel, but what is taking place is the boycott of any relationship or agreements with settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.”
Furthermore: “This experience is being circulated worldwide and not only in European countries; many areas worldwide are also ready to boycott the settlements.”
The agreement with the Arab parties to participate in the boycott campaign came after the participation of a delegation from the Palestinian National Initiative movement headed by Barghouti, along with a delegation from Fatah, headed by Nabil Shaath in the Arab Social Democratic Forum. It was held in Amman, Jordan, over two days and ended Wednesday.
The draft resolution put forward by the Palestinian National Initiative regarding Jerusalem was agreed upon unanimously, along with a mass movement of boycott and sanctions against Israel and the decision to support the Palestinian popular resistance and the struggle for justice for Palestinians against the occupation and the settlements.”