bcg retired software engineer This user account status is Approved Comments Comments Posts Posts On the topic of one-state/two-states, the Forward just ran an interview with Naftali Bennett that shows some interesting attitudes (clear your browser history if you're having trouble with the link): https://forward.com/opinion/415199/can-the-leader-of-a-nationalist-party-talk-to-the-diaspora-qa-with-naftali/?attribution=author-article-listing-1-headline "Batya Ungar-Sargon: In 2017, you said that your peace plan, the Stability Plan, would offer Palestinians all rights except when it comes to security and the right of return for Palestinians. You said it was “unrealistic” to offer them full self-determination...." Bennett's idea is .8 of a state for the Palestinians. On Groundbreaking poll: American support for one democratic state equal to support for two state solution @Mondonut: "That the populations are nearly equal? Other than it demonstrates yet another false narrative, I would say “So what?”." So the populations are nearly equal but one ethnic group controls everything, and the dominant ethnic group says..."israeli political and military leaders have traditionally referred to Palestinians as a disease, plague, or insects, with “cancerous manifestation” that necessitates “chemotherapy”, “drugged cockroaches in a bottle,” “beasts walking on two legs,” and “the biggest failure in the history of the human race” being only some examples. So what? How about apartheid, or an ongoing ethnic cleansing? On Palestinicide(s) @Mondonut: Oh, I get it! You're saying: how can there be a genocide when the Palestinian population has increased so much? My bad. If you had something to say about the actual content of the article, what would it be? On Palestinicide(s) @Mondonut: Huh? The link you've supplied says... "The number of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has risen from 2,895,683 in 1997 to 4,780,978 in 2017, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday. ...Israel’s leading demographics expert defended the military figures indicating the number of Arabs will soon equal that of Jews in Israel and the Palestinian territories....Sergio DellaPergola, a demographer from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, said the numbers of Arabs and Jews are nearly equal when you factor in the population of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem along with the population of Israel." And the title to the article states "Figures dovetail with Israeli military’s assessment implying looming parity between Jewish and Arab populations in Holy Land" On Palestinicide(s) @Mayhem: "The United States has been on the verge of doing what Trump did for 25 years and finally put its long promised words into action." "On the verge"? Really? Evidence? On One year on: The political and human impact of Trump’s Jerusalem decision @DeBakr: "Israeli Jews and Arabs have normal interactions, friendships and business transactions every day and all the time in jerusalem with nothing remarkable about it. " What nonsense. Here in the U.S. African-Americans and 'white' people have normal interactions and friendships and business transactions every day- look, a dark-skinned person in Starbucks! - but that doesn't change the fact that our society has a deep problem with segregation and institutionalized racism and mass incarceration of minorities. On An orientalist antizionist, or: they don’t call it ‘Palestine Party Town’ for nothing, she said There you go - Mondonut unambiguously calls for the ethnic cleansing and the use of violence against Palestinians to achieve it - and the problem is Mondoweiss. On CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill for pro-Palestine comments, but gives a platform to Israeli gov’t spokespeople @catalan: By the way, what is it you want with respect to the whole Israeli/Palestinian issue? What's your position? On Netanyahu angling to institute capital punishment for Palestinians just in time for elections @Mondonut: "the borders with a nascent Palestine and disputed territories have yet to be established. And that is by agreement with the Palestinians, so of course not." I wasn't aware that the Palestinians have agreed to the ever expanding settlements, home demolitions and to being put in jail with no trial and no charges. On Al Jazeera’s censored series on ‘The Lobby’: a lesson in astroturfing pro-Israel activism @DaBakr: Tell us if you find this less flaccid: "In December 2016, Jewish American commentator Peter Beinart - who, unlike Vilkomerson, identifies as a Zionist - came to a similar conclusion. 'With every passing year, Israeli control of the West Bank grows more permanent. And so, with every passing year, more American progressives question Zionism...and the more those Americans voice this discomfort, the more establishment Jewish organizations work to classify anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, punishable by Law.' " page 107, "Cracks in The Wall - Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel" by Ben White. On To Europe we say: don’t conflate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism load more comments
