Seems to me military action doesn't work, but non-violent civil disobedience that makes it impossible for the economy to function could. It takes a lot of discipline -- more than I have -- but I think it would have better prospects.
The object should still be a separate state, IMO. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim Devine wrote: >> >> (Is it time for the Palestinians to simply surrender to Israel (giving >> up the idea of a separate state and the two-state "solution") and then >> struggle to win civil rights within the Israeli political system, as >> with the South African struggle against apartheid?) > > That might make sense if the state of Israel was coexistent with all the > occupied territories, including Gaza which is implicitly occupied, and all > the Palestinians were citizens. As it stands now, it is much more of an > attempt to eradicate Zionism, a much tougher fight since it runs counter to > the Messianic/cryptofascist foundational myths of the Zionist state. The > whites in South Africa were ready to get rid of formal apartheid as long as > economic apartheid continued. Israel is too racist to go that far. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
