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Nahostkonflikt: Der Krieg hat die Zweistaaten-Lösung begraben | Nachrichten auf ZEIT ONLINE (in German) by Michael Thumann
The article asks itself how many wars it takes to kill a peace initiative? The Gaza war seems to have killed the initiative based on the 2-state solution proposed in Madrid 1991 and backed by the Riad Arabic Peace initiative. The expansion of settlements in the West Bank with a rate of 5.5% yearly makes it impossible to build a future Palestinian state there.
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This is confirmed in the excellent article of Mouin Rabbani and Chris Toensing tracing "The Continuity of Obama's Change,"
now in Middle East Report Online:
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero012709.html
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Middle East Report Online is a free service of the Middle East Research
and Information Project (MERIP).
Ali said:
It was obvious for some researchers since midst of the eighties of the last century that an economically viable and a politically free State of Palestine was no more realizable, because of the accomplished occupation- and settling policy of the Zionists. This policy has buried for ever the 2-states solution. The Palestinians have now, in the best case and for the time being, the right to dream about a kind of Bantustan in the West-Bank and Gaza.
As for the Zionists, the idea to have an exclusively ethnical Jewish State of Israel is also buried for ever. A real peace in the Middle-East implicates the constitution of a bi-national State where Israeli and Palestinians can live together and in mutual respect.
@anonymus: thank you for the link I am going to read it and then comment more or even post it if it fits into this blog
@Ali: this bi-national state (although nation? Since when are the Israeli a nation? They are also not an ethnicity as clarified in my posting "
Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State") is what Gaddafi calls Isratine... I think it is going to cost a few thousand people more their life till the Israeli sense the necessity to end their apartheid and live with the others on equal bases
Firas: You are right. Instead of "bi-national", it’s more adequate in our case to speak about: Inter-Community State, where one day beside the native population of Palestine, the entzionist European settlers or Ashkenazim and other Sephardim, all of them have to live in peace and harmony on the same spot of land. All the present inhabitants of former Great Syria, including the Israelis, but also of Iraq are for the time being "nations in formation" (im Werdegang). In the kaleidoscopic landscape of the Middle East, there is no place for ethnical states and Herrenrasse, despite the pretension of all kind of Zionists, including the Zionist-Christens like Merkel and Sarkosi who believe in the so-called "existential right of Israel to be a Jewish State" ( Existenzrechts Israels als juedischer Staat).
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