At some point, western countries have to actually believe Netanyahu when he says there is not going to be a Palestinian state. The 2 state solution is dead. Israel has killed it with acts just like this. No amount of farcical recognition of the rump Bantustan in Ramallah is going to undo this.
So it’s a simple matter of recognizing the reality that Israel is either going to be a Jewish state serving the fears of a Jewish diaspora or a democratic republic of the actual people, Arabs, Jews and others, who live under its law. It’s a simple choice, that the Israeli governments of the past twenty years have been etching in blood on the land.
*~60 years. That’s when settlement started.
I’m counting from the early 2000s when the Israelis were still actually making plausible 2 state solution proposals, even if only rhetorically. I think 2007 is the last time the Israeli government actually signed a joint statement with the Palestinians in support of the 2 state solution. Since then there hasn’t even been even lip service, as far as I can tell.
I’m counting from the early 2000s when the Israelis were still actually making plausible 2 state solution proposals, even if only rhetorically.
In that case you want the early 90s instead with the Oslo accords.
Since then there hasn’t even been even lip service, as far as I can tell.
There was one more farce after that, I think in 2014.
settlement started even further back than that…
Totally unrelated but the way you explained it sounds like the plot of Full Metal Alchemist.
