There can be only one state - Palestine. The two state "solution" means that foreign nations can capture/colonize any place on earth, carve part of it out for the colonizers and pretend to be democratic. The two state solution is a justification of settler-colonialism.
What makes two state/ one state debates sound purely academic , saturated with hypocrisy , and colonial arrogance is magnified by Western Government apparent impotence to even manage urgent change of reality in Gaza today. Two million Palestinians are held captive in 30% of the land, deprived of housing, humanitarian aid, fuel, clean water, medicine, with daily targeted killings ,1400, at least 300 children since US brokered ceasefire - to add to 70,000 killed directly during genocidal vengeful military assault following Oct 7th attack in which 1200 Israelis were killed, some of them civilians.
War Crimes, crimes against humanity, carried out in plain sight on industrial scale in Gaza , West Bank and East Jerusalem. Yes , increase in volume of condemnations but no increase in humanitarian aid, no end to settler terrorism, no end to land grab.
Self determination feels like cruel mirage . Palestinians can onlydetermine their own future if they are free from Occupation.
But , to give him credit, Ed Miliband has opened up space to openly discuss Palestine, associate Israel with crime of ethnic cleansing, shifted the dial on discourse that had been shut down by Starmer. As Daniel Levy put, take small win, long overdue, for big pressure that public opinion, activists and protesters applied , never wavering , during 3 years of unspeakable horror, largely unreported by complicit media.
The pressure must not stop, there must be a reckoning for politicians at the ballot box if they fail to curb Israel's expansionist objectives. No change to protests . No change to BDS.
Above all there must be a reckoning for the crimes committed by State of Israel.
it took 3 years of genocide to get these clowns to even pretend to care, and even then only because the established 2 party status quo control mechanism is threatened - labour and conservative would both lose out as the only established parties if it falls apart - the elites are desperate for that not to happen
Im not really holding out that much hope for what horrors it could take for the current power structure to change facts on the ground comprehensively in the manner required to deliver justice for the wonderful Palestinian people
The two state solution is a red herring. The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza proceeds apace. There are about 800,000 settlers in the West Bank and Israel occupies about 70% of Gaza, having pushed 1.9 or so million Palestinians into a dwindling sliver up against the sea. All this is being prosecuted by the Israeli state, with the military in either the lead or providing hefty support. The 2 state solution, as it currently is laid out, would mean the balkanization of the West Bank, the separation of Gaza from the West Bank and the circumscribing of the West Bank by Israel and it's stooge governments in the Arab world. It is absurd. Those who proclaim the 2 state solution would have to go to war with Israel in order to reverse the aforementioned occupation and settlement. And that is never going to happen. They know this. The 2 state solution is simply an illusion that allows the persistence of the status quo.
A far better solution would be one state. It is already a single state between the river and the sea, albeit an apartheid one in which Palestinians do not have the same rights. Why not give Palestinians equal rights and end the apartheid, and let the chips fall where they may? The Israelis would resist this ferociously as well, for sure. And this is where international boycotts and sweeping sanctions come in.
The one state solution is a far more plausible and serious option. The probability that the world will sanction Israel and coerce it to accord equal rights to Palestinians is far greater than the alternative where the world will come together to coerce Israel to uproot and turf out 800,000 of its people. Once an equal, democratic and free Palestine is proclaimed, many Israelis who cant countenance the fact that Palestinians would now have a say in running the single state between the river and the sea will automatically up sticks and leave. And only those who can live in harmony with Palestinians will stay behind. It is not going to be as easy as I might have inadvertently made it sound, but I still feel that one state, Palestine, is the only real solution here if one is serious about Palestinian freedom
There can be only one state - Palestine. The two state "solution" means that foreign nations can capture/colonize any place on earth, carve part of it out for the colonizers and pretend to be democratic. The two state solution is a justification of settler-colonialism.
We must keep up the pressure. Free Palestine
Sorry to see the John Mann video-link is to ‘X’, or Twatter, or whatever it now calls itself. Obviously I’m not going there!
UK also abetted in the genocide. Does it continue to do so?
yes it still does, Miliband doesnt even mention stopping arms sales to the genocidaires
What makes two state/ one state debates sound purely academic , saturated with hypocrisy , and colonial arrogance is magnified by Western Government apparent impotence to even manage urgent change of reality in Gaza today. Two million Palestinians are held captive in 30% of the land, deprived of housing, humanitarian aid, fuel, clean water, medicine, with daily targeted killings ,1400, at least 300 children since US brokered ceasefire - to add to 70,000 killed directly during genocidal vengeful military assault following Oct 7th attack in which 1200 Israelis were killed, some of them civilians.
War Crimes, crimes against humanity, carried out in plain sight on industrial scale in Gaza , West Bank and East Jerusalem. Yes , increase in volume of condemnations but no increase in humanitarian aid, no end to settler terrorism, no end to land grab.
Self determination feels like cruel mirage . Palestinians can onlydetermine their own future if they are free from Occupation.
But , to give him credit, Ed Miliband has opened up space to openly discuss Palestine, associate Israel with crime of ethnic cleansing, shifted the dial on discourse that had been shut down by Starmer. As Daniel Levy put, take small win, long overdue, for big pressure that public opinion, activists and protesters applied , never wavering , during 3 years of unspeakable horror, largely unreported by complicit media.
The pressure must not stop, there must be a reckoning for politicians at the ballot box if they fail to curb Israel's expansionist objectives. No change to protests . No change to BDS.
Above all there must be a reckoning for the crimes committed by State of Israel.
it took 3 years of genocide to get these clowns to even pretend to care, and even then only because the established 2 party status quo control mechanism is threatened - labour and conservative would both lose out as the only established parties if it falls apart - the elites are desperate for that not to happen
Im not really holding out that much hope for what horrors it could take for the current power structure to change facts on the ground comprehensively in the manner required to deliver justice for the wonderful Palestinian people
The two state solution is a red herring. The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza proceeds apace. There are about 800,000 settlers in the West Bank and Israel occupies about 70% of Gaza, having pushed 1.9 or so million Palestinians into a dwindling sliver up against the sea. All this is being prosecuted by the Israeli state, with the military in either the lead or providing hefty support. The 2 state solution, as it currently is laid out, would mean the balkanization of the West Bank, the separation of Gaza from the West Bank and the circumscribing of the West Bank by Israel and it's stooge governments in the Arab world. It is absurd. Those who proclaim the 2 state solution would have to go to war with Israel in order to reverse the aforementioned occupation and settlement. And that is never going to happen. They know this. The 2 state solution is simply an illusion that allows the persistence of the status quo.
A far better solution would be one state. It is already a single state between the river and the sea, albeit an apartheid one in which Palestinians do not have the same rights. Why not give Palestinians equal rights and end the apartheid, and let the chips fall where they may? The Israelis would resist this ferociously as well, for sure. And this is where international boycotts and sweeping sanctions come in.
The one state solution is a far more plausible and serious option. The probability that the world will sanction Israel and coerce it to accord equal rights to Palestinians is far greater than the alternative where the world will come together to coerce Israel to uproot and turf out 800,000 of its people. Once an equal, democratic and free Palestine is proclaimed, many Israelis who cant countenance the fact that Palestinians would now have a say in running the single state between the river and the sea will automatically up sticks and leave. And only those who can live in harmony with Palestinians will stay behind. It is not going to be as easy as I might have inadvertently made it sound, but I still feel that one state, Palestine, is the only real solution here if one is serious about Palestinian freedom
Keep up the great work Owen. 100% behind your tireless campaign for honesty in Government. Almost a contradiction in terms!