Though it should be noted that Sheizaf does not believe that they are really serious, and believes that so long as Israeli does not face significantly increased pressure, the choice of the Israeli political system will continue to be "maintain the status quo while trying to minimize its costs," and that if Israel ever faced enough pressure to force it to abandon the status quo, Israeli Jews would decisively choose "two state solution" over "one state solution that grants rights to Palestinians."
Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> wrote: > Israel’s decision, announced this weekend, to expropriate 1000 acres of > Palestinian land is the largest single land grab in the past three decades > of the occupation, and further evidence, in case such were needed, that it > has no intention of negotiating a two-state solution. > > I’ve linked below an excellent article published several months ago by the > Israeli blogger Noam Shiezaf indicating what prominent figures close to the > governing right-wing coalition have in mind for a single Jewish state > encompassing the West Bank but excluding Gaza and the Palestinian refugees. > Contrary to the fears expressed by their liberal counterparts, these > right-wing Zionists do not believe they will have to choose between > demography and democracy; they’re convinced they can both grant formal > citizenship rights to the West Bank Palestinians while retaining a Jewish > majority in their realized vision of a Greater Israel spanning both banks > of the Jordan River. > > http://972mag.com/what-is-the-israeli-rights-one-state-vision/90755/ > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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