The One-State Solution by Daniel Lazare

[Jon Ford]

Michael- - I read most of the Lazare article. It is a book review-- so 
naturally it is long and confusing. He is only summing up ideas that 
conflict greatly over the future of Israe, and he does so pretty well, I 
thinkl. I hope Israelis read his article and think about the perspectives it 
provides on the conflict.

Jon



>From: Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>
>To: byronmarshall2001@yahoo.com, 
>austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net,marie@inside-crew.net
>Subject: Re: The One-State Solution by Daniel Lazare Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 
>16:35:01 -0500
>
>Byron,
>
>Thanks for sending a link to the David Lazare article in
>The Nation
>
>http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031103&s=lazare
>
>A long confusing article from which one concludes -- what?
>
>My take:
>
>first of all this is/will be no solution.
>
>second of all, this is as Lazare says a demographic
>issue.
>
>he follows those who suggest that Israel unilaterally
>withdraw to the pre-1967 borders.
>
>it aint going to happen.
>
>1) there are over 200,000 Israelis living in the
>west bank.
>
>2) there are 1 million plus Arabs with Israeli
>citizenship living in Israel -- despite being second
>class citizens, they have no interest in departing
>Israel
>
>3) there are some Israelis -- Sharon foremost among
>them -- who are waiting for an excuse to run the
>Palestinians out of the west bank into Jordan or
>into the Gaza strip. ethnic cleansing can't be done
>in the light of day, but should there be a big
>war or tremendous act of terrorism -- some cover
>or other for the deed -- it might happen.
>
>Sharon and others I suspect are quite prepared to
>do it, justifying it to themselves as raison d'etat.
>
>in other words, he is I believe prepared to pull a
>Slobadan Milosevic type ethnic cleansing if he thinks
>he can get away with it under cover of some great
>upheaval elsewhere so folks wont notice...much.
>of course it will be done as "humanely" as possible:
>free transport included.
>
>and sleep like a babe afterwards muttering to themselves
>raison d'etat, raison d'etat
>
>Mike
>

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