Sunday, March 24, 2024

The Final State of Palestine

Final state?  The defacto one state from the river to the sea.

Except, it must grant equal rights to all within, regardless of race or religion, or the "state" identity (Israeli or Palestinian) they previously held.

It must implement a full right of return for all displaced Palestinians to their original homes.

What about the Jews who have immigrated under Zionism?  Many, including Jewish Neturei Karta, say they should leave.  I agree that would be justice.  But justice is not always for us to achieve, if it requires driving yet another set of people out of their homes, many of whom may have simply been foolish.

IMO settlers not in previously unsettled areas do not have to move at all.  Settlers in previous Palestinian homes should give them up and accept resettlement elsewhere.  All Zionist settlers must accept the new expected Muslim majority state, so long as it implements equal rights for all regardless of religion, and non-discrimination, as the Hamas Charter of 2017 specifies.

Jews in Israel should stay, and fight for equal rights instead of supremacy.

Can diaspora Jews still emigrate to the renewed Palestine?  It's not mine to decide, but I'd say it's fine as long as they do not participate in terror against the new state, and Palestinian return is taken care of first.

Zionists call such ideas ridiculous.  Hamas will implement sharia law, they say.  That is not what Hamas says in their 2017 charter, and there are also many non-Hamas segments of Palestinian population who would also not call for that, Palestinian society is far more progressive, say, than Saudi Arabian.  And religious law and discrimination are exactly what needs to be resisted by Jews, as a new ethnic minority, and not the fundamental right of right of Palestinians to return to their homes that were seized in the violent creation and maintenance of the Zionist Entity.  One should resist what is wrong, and never what is right.

I am not calling for the immediate restoration of lands to their former condition, say orchards of olive trees.  Clearly compensation for lost properties...including community assets...would be justice.  But actual restoration of everything is impossible.  Also, Zionists should not smash and burn their actual contributions (though it would be fine if they smashed their apartheid structures including walls checkpoints) as that is the allowance made for not requiring everything to be completely restored to its former condition either.


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