r/neoliberal • u/GrandpaWaluigi Waluigi-poster • Dec 11 '23

The two-state solution is still best Opinion article (non-US)

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/michaelclas NATO Dec 11 '23

I’ve come to the same conclusion. There is no just solution for the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Both sides are too entrenched and mistrustful of each other.

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u/coke_and_coffee Henry George Dec 11 '23

People have said that about a lot of conflicts in the past. A solution will eventually come.

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u/ManicMarine Karl Popper Dec 12 '23

Israel will find a solution for the Palestinians much as Turkey found a solution for the Armenians, and Burma found a solution for the Rohingya.

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u/coke_and_coffee Henry George Dec 12 '23

Israel is not genociding Palestinians. 20% of Israelis are Arabs.

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u/ManicMarine Karl Popper Dec 12 '23 edited Dec 12 '23

Israel has been ethnically cleansing Palestinians from the West Bank for years, regardless of the charge of genocide.

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u/drink_bleach_and_die NATO Dec 12 '23

Israel won't put a majority of Palestinians in camps and shoot/starve them like the Ottomans or Nazis. They'll keep seizing lands and expanding settlements, probably, but it'll take centuries until there's a Jewish demographic majority in the West Bank.

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u/ManicMarine Karl Popper Dec 12 '23

I don't believe it will take so long, between 10-40% of the West Bank is already under Jewish Settler de facto jurisdiction. As Palestinians are squeezed into smaller areas there will be more pressure on them to either leave or get violent.

Israel has emptied out much of Northern Gaza during the course of this war, and it is hard to see much of the population who left ever returning. The same could happen in the West Bank.