Wednesday, January 29, 2020

as far as i can tell, the so-called deal in palestine is just an adoption of the status quo as official policy; this is exactly what they've been doing for years, anyways.

i'm not an advocate of a two-party state; i don't think that you create peace in the region via ethnic or religious segregation. i'm an advocate of a one-party state with equal rights for everybody. israel should be democratic, at the expense of being intrinsically jewish. 

i will reject ethnic nationalism, every time.

so, i'm not going to get particularly angry about this. trump hasn't actually done anything at all here, and the issue has been fundamentally about civil rights for palestinians for a long time now, anyways.

if they are going to annex the jordan valley, that should be interpreted as a first step towards the constitutional adoption of a proper rights framework for the palestinian people. that's what i care about here - civil rights - not which group claims which area as a consequence of which contrived dark age text.