Wednesday, May 1, 2024

State Reconstruction is not Genocide

The One State Solution that most pro Palestinian advocates endorse (and most Palestinians too, though numbers may vary with the current state of apartheid/war/genocide on Palestinians) is not a Genocide of Jews.

Jews would not have to leave the new One State Palestine which would span from the River to the Sea.  They would not have to give up Judaism or even the Judeo-Atheism many of them actually practice.

They should not have to live under anything like Sharia Law.

They should be faced with any sort of discrimination as a result of being Jewish or even having Zionism as a dream (though not Zionism as a continuing practice).

All that the Jews of Israel would have to give up are the reigns of illegally and immorally concentrated murderous power they have exercised over the Palestinians since the creation of the state of Israel.

While demanding a non-discriminatory and secular state, the Jews of Israel should not prevent the realization of the full Right of Return of Palestinians to Palestine.

That is in the international law, and justice, and morality.

The Jews of Israel will have to accept that they are no longer the majority of the reconstructed State of Palestine R2S.  They will be a minority, but a minority of sufficient power to demand their fair and equal rights going forwards, after the implementation of the Right of Return.*

In fact, the Hamas Charter of 2017 basically calls for what I am describing.  It calls for a new state without religious discrimination.  (And that's in the part that does not accept a limited Two State Solution as an interim step.)  It does not call for the elimination of Jews or Zionist settlers.  They are welcome to stay and be free and equal as long as they now respect the rights of other Palestinians in a state of equality for all.

(*This means that some stolen properties may need to be vacated, though in many if not most cases the change is simply in title, who owns the land, not so much in occupation.  Palestinians deserve their original homes back, but not all current homes originated during Palestinian times (eg Palestinian Mandate and Ottoman Empire).  Most settler homes are new homes, but on previously Palestinian properties.  It should be understood that in Mandate and Ottoman times, most land was owned by the state of Palestine, only a fraction was in private hands.  Such properties would now be owned by the new R2S One State of Palestine, which would through constitution guarantee non-discriminatory access by Jews.)




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