The One Democratic State Campaign for a Multicultural Democratic State in Palestine/Israel
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1610 ... May 24, 2018
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The ‘One Democratic State Campaign’ for a Multicultural Democratic State in Palestine/Israel
Jeff Halper
As the Leonard Cohen song goes, “everybody knows” the two-state solution is dead and gone. Zionism’s 120-year quest to Judaize Palestine – to transform Palestine into the Land of Israel – has been completed. Every Israeli government since 1967 has refused to seriously entertain the notion of a genuinely independent and viable Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel. Any possibility of a viable Palestinian state in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) has long been buried under the massive “facts on the grounds.” Israel’s Matrix of Control has rendered its control over the entire country permanent.
The two-state solution nonetheless continues to be the solution-of-choice of governments. It provides a... perfect vehicle for endless conflict management. Negotiations over negotiations or merely holding out slim prospects of negotiations lead nowhere but can be dragged on indefinitely, which is the point. Indeed, it is a trap in which the Palestinian Authority is caught, since disavowing the two-state solution casts it as the intransigent party.
