Two States, Too Little, Too Late by Haim Bresheeth

[BowlingForPalestine]

This is not something I find easy to say, as an Israeli and son of Holocaust survivors. I would like to be able to argue for an Israeli-Hebrew entity -- not a Zionist militarist enterprise, of course, but a democratic, autonomous political and cultural entity twinned with a similar Palestinian entity. But after four decades of military rule and all the desecration of political, human, civil, property and other forms of rights by the occupation regime, most reasonable people will agree that no support can be given to this outdated, violent, immoral and inefficient mode of domination of one people over another. If it at least worked for the oppressors some people may well have justified the means vis-a-vis the end.

Alas, it does not, cannot and will not work for the benefit of either side. The West was quick to see this in the case of South Africa, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Kuwait and a number of other zones of conflict. Military occupation cannot be condoned. Domination through power and might will never get the vanquished to accept the occupiers. Political solutions enforced by the powerful on the powerless are wrong -- not just morally but because they undermine the rule of law elsewhere.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=22&ItemID=5154

[JohnLocke]

1. DUPE

Will find link.

[BowlingForPalestine]

3. It's not a dupe.

It's reposted.

[Jim Sagle]

2. CROCK

Ol' hashbreath strkes again.

[BowlingForPalestine]

5. How's it a crock?

[redqueen]

4. Obviously true

But the MIC would love for this fact to continue to be ignored.

[Fight_n_back]

6. Those damn Jordanians!

Why did they start the occupation in the first place? It would all be over now if they hadn't invaded the West Bank in 1948.

Thats what he is talking about right?