Various authors, IMEU
On the 60th anniversary of the passage of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, the below signatories have issued the "One State Declaration." The statement is the result of two conferences held this year in Madrid and London on the one-state solution.
For decades, efforts to bring about a two-state solution in historic Palestine have failed to provide justice and peace for the Palestinian and Israeli Jewish peoples, or to offer a genuine process leading towards them.
The two-state solution ignores the physical and political realities on the ground, and presumes a false parity in power and moral claims between a colonized and occupied people on the one hand and a colonizing state and military occupier on the other. It is predicated on the unjust premise that peace can be achieved by granting limited national rights to Palestinians living in the areas occupied in 1967, while denying the rights of Palestinians inside the 1948 borders and in the Diaspora. Thus, the two-state solution condemns Palestinian citizens of Israel to permanent second-class status within their homeland, in a racist state that denies their rights by enacting laws that privilege Jews constitutionally, legally, politically, socially and culturally. Moreover, the two-state solution denies Palestinian refugees their internationally recognized right of return.
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5 comments:
A simple deal: I say, give Muslims free reign in Israel for the price of free reign of non-muslims in Saudi Arabia, deal? why can't i walk into mecca right now, yet arab muslims can move about israel right now with full rights and citizenship? huh, think about it!
Hello crusaders!
I believe people should be able to to live and work in different countries where all have full human and civil rights. Protection of human, civil and economic rights is essential if we have to live as civilized human beings.
We know what happens in Saudi Kingdom and Israel (but here I do not necessarily follow your version of equal citizenship, etc.,in Israel, because that is not true all). But if you can contribute to a better understanding between peoples and nations, then join those who are trying to do exactly that. Then you will come to look at yourself as a peace champion and anti-war activist, not a crusader, a holy fighter or things like that.
By the way, if you want to stay a crusader then don't follow the example of Latin Crusaders! To conquer Jerusalem they had butchered almost the entire Muslim and Jewish population of Jerusalem!!
"peace through strength" is the historical lesson the West has learned in dealing with 1,400 years of Islamic aggression. As far as the crusades are concerned, as Dinesh D'Souza said it: "So the Crusades can be seen as a belated, clumsy, and unsuccessful effort to defeat Islamic imperialism." Although it was ill-conceived and 400-years after the beginning of incessant Muslim jihads, the Crusades may very well have saved Europe from Muslim domination.
I find it ironic that Muslims still complain about a short-lived, limited in scope counter-attack (known as the crusades), yet have never apologized or shown any remorse for 1,400 years of Jihad. Let's not forget that all of the Middle East was Christian and Jewish before Muhammad and his army (and the subsequent Caliphs) started conquering, pillaging and terrorizing.
Wow!
Your reading of history would have made the late Jerry Falwell proud of you!
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