Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
In yesterday’s post, I argued against the simplistic and, in my view, weak argument that a one state framework for achieving peace in Israel/Palestine is “political fancifulness”. Given that this argument is one of the most commonly heard criticisms of the one state idea, I want to spend a bit more time addressing it. I [...]
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New reports suggest that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has reached an agreement with the Obama administration regarding a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state along the green line, i.e. along the ’67 borders, i.e. along borders that would include the half million settlers currently living in the West Bank. The reports indicated that Palestinian [...]
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The war of 1948 and the associated ethnic cleansing, which the Israelis recognize as the War of Independence and the Palestinians consider the Nakba (catastrophe), is an absolutely fundamental topic worth a lot of attention. I plan to tackle this complex issue in many stages. But the Borderline Crimes blog has an excellent description of [...]
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