Most politicians and media around the world believe that the desolated land comprising the old Palestine Mandate of the League of Nations should be divided into the sovereign states of Palestine and Israel, following a set of crazy boundaries approved by the United Nations back in 1947. I am amazed – as all of us should be amazed – at the incessant near-unanimous mouthing of support for this scheme that came first to that desperate vote-grubber, President Harry Truman and his old Jewish buddy, and was imposed upon a reluctant U.S. Department of State and the United Nations. Over sixty years of experience in trying to realize the "Two-States Solution" have brought forward at least these 23 reasons why it has not taken effect and will not work under any conditions – and, with the help of Prime Minister Netanyahu's recent declarations on the question, I shall be adding more in the near future...
1. Israelists and Zionists basically want all of Palestine and have shown an infinite capacity for inventing and seizing upon excuses for delaying the 2-states formula while they work toward a Greater Israel that will at best leave Palestine as a paperwork-pauper regime. The incredibly presumptuous yet respectfully applauded speech of Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu of June 14, 2009 offers, as I do here, a list of impossible conditions adding up to the conclusion by any sensible person that the two-state solution will not work.
2. The "One-State Solution", even in it meant imposing forcibly a UN or NATO Mandate government on the region, would cost far less damage to the people and land than has been experienced in attempting to set up the two-state solution.
3. Every week brings another roguery or disaster that is employed by good or bad activists to devise an unworkable response.
4. Palestinians will never cease demanding the Return of over a million related refugees from several countries and places.
5. Israel will never agree to the return of said refugees.
6. Neither Muslims, Palestinians, Jews, Christians nor power-seeking secularists will give up the right to rule all or part of Jerusalem.
7. The governmental authorities now operating in the region, with the exception of a few pacifist groups, are cultivating in all of their institutions, including even the schools, ever more hatred between Jews and Arabs, and even other minor religious interests – Christian (Catholic, Evangelical, conservative Protestants), Druse, Bedouin, and a few others.
8. Neither Palestine nor Israel is the historically correct name for the land at issue. Canaan as a name is preferable because the Canaans or Canaanites were a more general denomination of culture that either preceded or were the ancestors of most or all of the Jews and Arabs.
9. Over a quarter of a million Jews are settled illegally (if several solemn UN and national treaties mean anything) but refuse to be moved under any circumstances .
10. Israel domestically resembles a garrison state with a dominant internal set of forces refusing to consider allowing sovereignty to an Arab State as neighbor.
11. Any command to move from illegal or legal settlements will strike anxiety and aggressiveness in Jews, who are reminded of the Shoah expulsions.
12. The same strong feelings afflict many American Jews.
13. The conditions of life in Palestine are unbearable and will produce one disastrous rebellion or intifada after another indefinitely.
14. Internationally, Israel, recorded in opinion surveys around the world as the Worst Threat to World Peace, must keep this unenviable status so long as it must struggle against Palestinian resistance activities.
15. Internationally, Israeli relations with 1.5 billion Moslems will remain unfriendly if not downright hostile.
16. Palestine will not be accorded any air space rights, nor an open airport, a contradiction to sovereignty.
17. Palestine will not be allowed a military force of any consequence by Israel.
18. Under no conditions will Israel concede minimal water rights to Palestine.
19. Under no conditions will normal seaports and fishing rights be permitted to Paletine.
20. The total confusion of roads, routes, passages, tunnels, walls and all means of communication besides these will be impossible to agree upon, construct, maintain, and regulate by two unfriendly sets of workers.
21. Two independent complex educational systems will be costly, inefficient, competitive, and only grudgingly cooperative.
22. The tourist industry will be fiercely competitive and Israel may be losing heavily, given the more numerous sources of Palestinian support and capital, while manpower, here as in other industries, will be more readily available to Palestine companies and organizations.
23. Even if a nervous peace were to be established between the neighbors, American Jews would contribute less money and invest less money in Israel, finding numerous other places in the world of interest financially and technologically.
Note: There are numerous other reasons why the "2-state formula" will not work well, if at all. I am of the opinion that no honest (non-corrupted) and rational (sane) person can prefer the two-state to the one-state solution, particularly when offered the Canaan USA 51 Statehood Solution as a possibility.
(June 17, 2009) |
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