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> they're advocating for a one-state solution so that inhabitants of Palestine/Israel can get democratic representation & equal rights. Again, not a crazy take.
by barry-cotter 4y ago
> they're advocating for a one-state solution so that inhabitants of Palestine/Israel can get democratic representation & equal rights. Again, not a crazy take.
This is in fact a crazy take. It’s not quite advocating a shared state for Nazis and Jews level of crazy but it’s certainly getting there. Palestinian nationalism is based on being anti-Israel in much the same way anti-colonial or anti-metropolitan nationalism is. See Catalan, Scottish, Irish or Welsh nationalism.
Palestinian nationalism is much more like Irish nationalism than any of the rest of those in that people have killed for it in large numbers.
When people say something really stupid you have the choice of believing they’re lying or stupid. One staters are some of one and some of the other.
- dfadsadsf 4y agoWell Protestant and Catholics learned to live together in Germany. Took 30 years but they got there. I do not see why not Palestinians and Jewish can’t do the same.
- barry-cotter 4y agoWere I a Jew or a Palestinian I would personally prefer not to live in a battleground for 30 years. Losing a third of the population also sounds bad. If your argument for one state is that it would be at worst as bad as the 30 Years War I’ll take it as an argument against one state.