TWO OPTIONS NOW OPEN TO ISRAEL: EXPEL THE PALESTINIANS TO JORDAN AND EGYPT TO LIQUIDATE THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION, OR ABSORB THE PALESTINIANS INTO A NON-RACIAL SINGLE STATE Last year, two sets of bills from Yariv Levin (Likud) and Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) as well as Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid) tried to define the term “Jewish State,” but again could not find consensus. Even Israeli lawmakers cannot agree on how to define Jewish state - and for good reason! Linking the term to the idea of nationality amounts to apartheid law, one that is invested in keeping Palestinians as a minority at all costs and defines the status of non-Jewish Palestinians as a tolerated minority, with the option of turning them into a non-tolerated minority down the line, one which needs to be rid of because its presence spoils the state’s Jewish purity. In 2003, Netanyahu said that the wall built to encage the West Bank would prevent a “demographic spillover” into Israel. The collapse of the “peace process” to deliver a two-state solution threatens to leave the Israelis with only two options – expel the Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt to liquidate the Palestinian question, or absorb the Palestinians into a non-racial single state. - Taken from an article written by Vijay Prashad, the Edward Said Chair at the American University of Beirut.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 06:32:03 +0000
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