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re: Zionism's fate

All moral breast-beating aside, he makes one very good point:

Do you want a Jewish majority? No problem. Either put the Arabs on railway cars, buses, camels and donkeys and expel them en masse - or separate ourselves from them absolutely, without tricks and gimmicks. There is no middle path. We must remove all the settlements - all of them - and draw an internationally recognized border between the Jewish national home and the Palestinian national home. The Jewish Law of Return will apply only within our national home, and their right of return will apply only within the borders of the Palestinian state.

Do you want democracy? No problem. Either abandon the greater Land of Israel, to the last settlement and outpost, or give full citizenship and voting rights to everyone, including Arabs. The result, of course, will be that those who did not want a Palestinian state alongside us will have one in our midst, via the ballot box.

That's what the prime minister should say to the people. He should present the choices forthrightly: Jewish racism or democracy. Settlements or hope for both peoples. False visions of barbed wire, roadblocks and suicide bombers, or a recognized international border between two states and a shared capital in Jerusalem.


He's right. When it comes down to it, these are the only two choices Israel can make. I think the first one is the most feasible. Carve off the West Bank, pull all the settlements out (they did it in Sinai when they had to), and say, here it is. A contiguous state. No gerrymandered borders, no special corridors. It's all yours. Have fun making yet another Arabic totalitarian hellhole. Don't hold your breath waiting for your Arab neighbors to help you out, either.

Then build one FUCK of a wall on the border. Oh, the Palestinians will bitch about where the border is, since the Mediterranean is the only border they will accept, but let them. Then close the gates. It will be rough on the Palestinians and Israelis who depend on each other economically, but they'll get over it.

Then it's up to the Palestinians what to do. Of course, I know what they'll do. Use their brand new state as a terror headquarters, and ramp up the attacks against Israel, but at least the bullshit veneer of "victim" will be stripped away this time. Although I'm sure their apologists will come up with something plausible again.

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