Israel/Palestine: One state or two? | 77 comments (77 topical, editorial, 6 hidden)

Re: Israel/Palestine: One state or two? (none / 1)

Yikes - its alive! I thought this thread was long dead. How did it move back into the rec list?

Oh.. and by the way-.. you rposition is the same that some jewish intelectuals living in Israel...some of them respected but most of them called self-hating jews... a term I used to read and listen a lot.

I'm aware there is a huge diversity of views in Israel itself, and amongst Jews world-wide, and even within the Israeli parliament, but somehow the AIPAC/hardline Zionist line always seems to be represented in MSM as THE Israeli view.

If you disagree with that line you are an anti-Semite or a self-hating Jew" one of the most remarkably twists of victim psychology.

Its a pity ET doesn't seem to have more representation from progressive Israelis...

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Mon Feb 4th, 2008 at 09:34:09 AM EST
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Re: Israel/Palestine: One state or two? (none / 0)

My guess is because you linked to it and mentioned that the thread contained troll-rated comments, on a slow Sunday. And because it was a slow Sunday, people took a look for the entertainment value of seeing a troll being publicly smacked down. But that's just a guess.

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Feb 4th, 2008 at 09:48:07 AM EST
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Re: Israel/Palestine: One state or two? (none / 0)

I hadn't realised that page hits, as well as recs were used to rank the rec list.

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Mon Feb 4th, 2008 at 10:31:41 AM EST
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Re: Israel/Palestine: One state or two? (none / 0)

AFAIK, they aren't. But it is entirely possible that some of the people who came here rec'ed it. And if some of those people hadn't rec'ed it before, then it could conceivably bump it to the rec list on a slow day, because recs decay based on the date of the rec not the date of the diary.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Feb 4th, 2008 at 12:04:38 PM EST
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Re: Israel/Palestine: One state or two? (none / 0)

In Israel theya re minority of a minority of a minority.... a couple of hundreds at the most.

Luckily .. the biggest minority has realized that either they give up settlement or the israeli democracy is at stake...

The people in th emiddle have stillnot realized about how dangerous they are... at the moment the majority just does not care... thye do not see t as dangerous.... they see Hamas as dangerous.

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by kcurie on Mon Feb 4th, 2008 at 11:05:17 AM EST
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Re: Israel/Palestine: One state or two? (none / 0)

I think you are referring to a 2 state solution along 1967 borders with a shared Jerusalem.

Is the territory allocated to the Palestinians enough for a viable country?

The land is semi-aired. Water has always been a high priority item. Would a Palestinian state actually have enough? It is possible, for example, that a first world country would have enough while a third world country would not.

I suspect that part of what has driven Israel to expand its borders at every available opportunity is that what was allocated to Israel in 1948 was not really a viable country. Even Palestine in its entirety has viability problems - especially around water. Expansion into Lebanon to gain control of water resources would definitely make things easier.

_{aspiring to genteel poverty}

by edwin (eeeeeeee222222rrrrreeeeeaaaaadddddd@@@@yyyyaaaaaaa) on Mon Feb 4th, 2008 at 11:26:25 AM EST
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Re: Israel/Palestine: One state or two? (none / 1)

No, there is not enough water in the non-occupied parts of the West Bank for the current population.

Yes, one of consistent tactics of the settlement expansions has been to capture groundwater - although whether that's done on purpose or simply as a side-effect of grabbing the richest land first I don't know.

No, there is not enough water for everyone as it is. The water level in the Dead Sea is dropping fast.

No, there is not going to be more water in the future - if anything, the region is going to become more arid.

Yes, water consumption is greater in industrialised states due to mechanised agricultural irrigation.

Yes, the region is screwed. Badly.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Feb 4th, 2008 at 12:32:42 PM EST
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Re: Israel/Palestine: One state or two? (none / 0)

While industrial states use more water - they also have access to technology like desalinization plants that may be out of reach for a 3rd world country.

Yes, the region is screwed. Badly.

Yup.

_{aspiring to genteel poverty}

by edwin (eeeeeeee222222rrrrreeeeeaaaaadddddd@@@@yyyyaaaaaaa) on Mon Feb 4th, 2008 at 04:25:35 PM EST
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Re: Israel/Palestine: One state or two? (none / 1)

Only if they have access to energy. Are they gonna have that?

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Feb 5th, 2008 at 02:08:17 AM EST
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Re: Israel/Palestine: One state or two? (none / 1)

I think so. They already have a nuke plant - and courtesy of apartheid s. Africa they have a certain amount of U - probably enough for 200 nukes.

Probably solar would work out ok in the region as well.

_{aspiring to genteel poverty}

by edwin (eeeeeeee222222rrrrreeeeeaaaaadddddd@@@@yyyyaaaaaaa) on Tue Feb 5th, 2008 at 09:46:36 AM EST
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Israel/Palestine: One state or two? | 77 comments (77 topical, 0 editorial, 6 hidden)

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