Left views on elections abroad, the one-state solution, and more
“You need to take reality as it is, not the way you imagine it to be,” says Yousef Munayyer.
Israel has effectively made the establishment of a separate Palestinian state impossible. It’s clear what’s needed now: a single, democratic state with full rights for all people.
The ideological argument over the future of Israel-Palestine disguises the fact that for the past decade we have been living in a one-state reality.
A people cannot negotiate their fundamental human, national, political and civil rights. The only way out of a colonial situation is through a process of decolonization.
The people who speak now of the “one-state solution” for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are idealists. But they do a lot of harm. And not only because they remove themselves and others from the struggle for the only solution that is realistic. The two-state solution is not dead. It cannot die, because it is the only solution there is.
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