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Israel has continued to build settlements in the occupied West Bank, maintained road blocks and terrorized Palestinians. Israel governs the occupied Palestinian West Bank in an appartheid-like manner. Even now, home building continues and a high speed rail line is being built through what is supposed to become Palestine.
The USA wants to give Israel incentives to stop outrageous actions but in reality rewards present policies. The reality is that we are further from the creation an independent Palestinian state than ten years ago.
At this point, Israel is no longer able to order settlers to leave the planned future Palestinian state; a civil war would be likely if, following an agreement, the settlers would have to be moved from the West Bank by the military.
The West Bank is now seriously considering to declare independence. France, Spain, and other Western as well as Arabic countries support the declaration. Israeli settlers, troops and police would hardly leave peacefully: war would be extremely likely.
Israelis and the Semitic Arabs are close relatives and their religions are similar. Historically, Arabic and Jewish people got along fairly well. Main differences between Israeli and Palestinians include: The Israeli immigrants absorbed much of the cultures where they lived for centuries (Eastern and Western Europe, USA, North and East African, etc.); for centuries they no longer spoke their Semitic language, intermarried and included converts in their communities; many are relatively wealthy and well educated. The Palestinians are a much more homogenous ethnic group and they speak their Semitic language, lived in Palestine for centuries or millennia and are mostly very poor. However, the two groups’ economies are intertwined, they need each other (e.g. Palestinian workers build apartments for Israeli in he West Bank). There is no reason why conservative, reformed and agnostic Jews, Muslims and Christians and other minority groups could not find peace in a united secular, democratic Israel-Palestine, comparable to other multiethnic federal democracies, such as South Africa, India, Belgium, Switzerland and the USA.
Summary by H. Aeschbach www.humane-civilization.org
Israel-Palestine One-State Solution
Greetings,
We urge you to consider the critical situation in Israel-Palestine and fundamentally change the USA’s approach.
Israel has not credibly worked towards a two state solution at least since 2000.
Israel hardly responds to pressure from the USA or the international community; ‘incentives’ such as aid and weapons’ sales actually are rewards for working against the creation of an independent Palestinian state.
Israel is no longer able to move the settlers out of the West Bank without risking a civil war.
The West Bank is posed to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state and has support in the international community, including from France and Spain.
Such a declaration would be likely to cause a war.
The USA and world community have failed in this conflict and must work on the only remaining and reasonable solution:
one multiethnic, secular, federal democratic state.
The USA must stop all aid and weapons’ sales to Israel until there are serious negotiations towards one secular, democratic state. Resistance towards this goal and/or (further) human rights violations in the West Bank should lead to international sanctions against Israel.
The USA's unjustifiable support of Israel has become even more critical since the removal of Arab dictators in Tunisia and Egypt. While we advocate human rights and democracy, the Arab people will observe how we deal with Israel's obstructionism.
Since Israel's policies shattered the option of two viable independent states, justice and democracy can only be reached in a united Israel-Palestine. If we resist working effectively for humane conditions and justice in Palestine, we will strengthen fundamentalist and radical Muslim movements and create more enemies.
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