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.
>
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