As a long time believer in the two state solution, I must be a liberal Zionist. I join Professors Chomsky and Finkelstein in that belief. Unfortunately most Israelis want a one state solution where Israeli sovereignty extends over the whole ‘Land of Israel’ [Judea and Samaria] and beyond [the litani river and the Golan Heights], see also the Likud charter. According to Naftali Bennett the Palestinians will either live in self governing Bantustans [with no representation in the Knesset] or they will be forced to accept that arrangement. Of course Bantustans were set up in South Africa and many black South Africans were induced into accepting them, even though blacks outnumbered whites by ten to one. Many Palestinians could go along with a similar arrangement provided those ‘prisons’ were well carpeted by the US/EU and Saudis.
Sorry to labour this point, but I think it is so important, when Professor N Finkelstein spoke in Dublin last year he said this of some the Palestinian solidarity movement [I think he had his friend Phil Weiss in mind] said …”If you can’t get half a loaf, why not ask for the whole loaf, if it seems as if the two states is not within reach, well why not ask for one state? I can understand that reasoning , the logic of it, but you would have to convince me of two things, number one, that two states is not within reach, and you would have to convince me that one state is more within reach than two states. I think neither propositions is true, I think the second proposition is positively insane. If Israel will not abandon/give up the West Bank, if that’s true do you think it would be easier for Israel to give up a Jewish State? Does that make any sense? If two states is remote, one state is another time warp”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS4eBHz2wEU He also said can you name one country in the world that supports a one state solution? None, so you think you are going to win a cause against the whole world, these are flights of fancy, fantasy as well, they are nothing to do with the real world?
I agree with Professor Finkelstein, although I am more pessimistic about the future. In another statement Professor Finkelstein said “Israel must suffer a defeat”, did he have those hundreds of thousands of rockets aimed at the postage sized, very vulnerable state of Israel by Hezbollah, Syria and Iran in mind, could be?
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December 18th, 2017 
Awake Goy 
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