Tuesday, October 1, 2013

A Northern Ireland solution for Palestine?

Ali Abunimah (Electronic Intifada)
Israeli academic Neve Gordon was the target of a forceful backlash from peers and Israel lobby groups like J Street four years ago when he endorsed the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) targeting Israel – albeit as a last-ditch effort to save the “two-state solution.”
Now, using this week’s conference of the Israel lobby group J Street as a hook, Gordon has come back with an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times concluding that the two-state solution is essentially finished.
Gordon proposes a sort of hybrid one-state solution modeled on the 1998 Belfast Agreement (also known as the “Good Friday agreement”) in Northern Ireland.
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2 comments:

  1. Israel's idea of peace is to be able to rob, kill, and expel Palestinians in peace, with impunity.

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    1. Or you could say "peace via complete surrender". This is what they seriously think will happen.

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