Yeah, come to think of it, the banal "two-state solution" is so early 20th century. Jeff Sparrow sums it up:
The Zionist colonial project was based on expectations from a different age, taking for granted that homicidal anti-Semitism lurked ineradicably in the West, so that Jewish people would be relentlessly persecuted unless they lived under a Jewish state.Those assumptions were wrong.In the developed world, anti-Semitism has become an ideology of a crackpot fringe. And has Israel become a place of safety, a magnet for Jews the world over? On the contrary. Most Jews in the West have no intention of moving. Why would they? Omar Barghouti quotes former speaker of the Knesset, Avraham Burg, about Israel: 'Few of us know any other existential reality apart from our unrelenting war with everyone, all the time and over all issues.'By contrast, the underlying assumptions of the one-state solution are much more compatible with contemporary democratic sensibilities.
If the U.S. has a role to play in this conflict, it should be to support democracy, equal rights and inter-ethnic tolerance. A one-state solution in a democratic, multi-ethnic Israel meets those criteria.
By Jeff Sparrow
August 16, 2012 | Overland
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