The 193-member world body approved [September 13] a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly 80-year conflict. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
The 193-member world body approved [September 13] a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly 80-year conflict. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
I doubt mass deporting Israeli Jews will gain much support either, and without that you’d just end up with Jim Crow—the US racial discrimination in spite of the anti-slavery Civil War—where the Israeli majority will just democratically tyrannize the Palestinians like they’re doing right now, just without the bombs.
I don’t think there’d be a Jewish majority if Palestinian refugees are granted the right to return from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, etc.
Also, a lot of Jewish people would outright refuse to live in decolonized Palestine. They’d rather live in Europe than in a country they are forced to share with Palestinians. Without apartheid and a Jewish ethnostate, the Middle East loses a lot of its appeal.
Especially when a lot of them lose their property because it’s fucking stolen.
Did you know that is the reason my country (Iran) voted no to this resolution?
because Iran backs one state that everyone lives in it and refugees have come back.
that seems like a big risk to take. alternatively palestinian refugees could choose to just not return because of all the recent horrors and shaky stability. plus, jim crow dominated even black-majority areas.
I think Palestinians have demonstrated over and over that they are willing to stay on the land even at the risk of their own lives.
Israelis, meanwhile, flee the country whenever things get difficult. Their population growth is negative at the moment.
Also, Jim Crow and the defeat of Reconstruction happened because slave owners weren’t imprisoned for their crimes or stripped of their wealth and/or property. They lost their slaves, they didn’t lose their land or even their social or political power. They had business relations and could recover. We don’t have to make that mistake again. Every war criminal goes to prison and pays reparations, every person on stolen land gets their land seized, then you won’t have a similar repeat of Jim Crow.
Not the ones that have fled and you’re counting on to come back.
We repeated Jim Crow in German denazification and Japanese deimperialism-ing, all for the same reason: politicians lost interest. I don’t see why that would change enough to become a guarantee.
Denazification worked, what are you talking about?
The modern German government is very good at going against Nazis, but that is not because of Denazification, which turned into just filing paperwork.
It became the anti-Nazism force it is today due to the 60s Vergangenheitsbewältigung movement and popular programming bringing the issues to the forefront, such as the TV series that popularized the term “Holocaust”.
We can’t rely on a similar stroke of luck to have the Israeli culture just confront itself, too.
From the same article you quoted:
The US and other Western powers lost interest because the US was sympathetic to the Nazis.
The lesson here is that Iran and the Axis of Resistance should be the ones in charge of de-Zionification, rather than Zionist-sympathizers.
While it has a similar incentive to throw valid shade at the US handling this matter, Russia does not have a good track record of upholding Soviet standards at handling matters either, though.
Reconstruction-era Republicans came into power because their whole schtick was anti-racism, and they bungled things anyways.