The two-state solution is still best

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-two-state-solution-is-still-best

The rather ignored 2 state solution remains the best possible solution to the I/P crisis.

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[u/Naudious]

To pile on Binationalism: it has no constituency in Israel or Palestine. Israeli One-Staters want to create Palestinian reservations. Palestinian One-Staters want to evict the Jews.

So you'd have a State and a constitution, that every single faction in the country would be plotting to undermine.

And since Binationalism opens the border between Israel and Palestine, it makes a Two-State solution nearly impossible to revert to.

Jewish Settlers would move to the West Bank en masse, and Palestinians would move into Israel proper - both motivated by their vision that the whole land belongs to their people. And without a border separating them, armed Jewish and Muslim groups would almost certainly be battling each other across the region. Which will push people to the extremes even further.

It'll be Bleeding Kansas times 100. (Edit: this is a severe understatement, more like 10,000)

[u/MaNewt → u/Naudious]

This is a valid criticism of problems that need to be addressed. My counterpoint is that this is the only durable option though and so we have to figure it out.

It'll be Bleeding Kansas times 100.

I don’t doubt it would be worse, but in terms of bleeding Kansas x100, We’re there imo.

[u/Naudious → u/MaNewt]

This is a valid criticism of problems that need to be addressed. My counterpoint is that this is the only option though and so we have to figure it out.

On every single issue, a Two-State solution is more doable than Binationalism. Binationalism requires changing the fundamental desires of the entire population.

Jews have to accept the dissolution of their State and become an ethnic minority living under an antisemitic majority - which their entire national identity is built around escaping.

And Palestinian would have to accept a liberal state with constitutional protections for Jews living across the entire land - which they will still consider a Western colonial imposition on their rights as the majority population.

Whereas with two states, both sides are just disappointed they didn't get the entire region, but their fundamental national identities can remain.