Sunday, January 25, 2009

The One-State Solution

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/opinion/22qaddafi.html?scp=1&sq=one-state&st=cse
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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Subject: re: The One-State Solution
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
 Mr. Qadaffi's proposal--like Marxism--is a system better suited to
governing a society of angels than one of men. Jew and Muslim alike
look forward to another world in which all nations will be one and
borders will be unnecessary. In the world as we know it peace has come
to the Balkans (e.g.) by allowing the separate communities their
separate states, rather than caging them together.  Even closer, we
remember that the partition of Palestine has already created the
legitimate and peaceful state of Jordan.
 When they were last polled, an substantial majority of Palestinians
in the West Bank and Gaza (and a larger majority of Israelis) were
ready to sign on to a two-state solution like that sketched in the
Ayalon/Nusseibeh plan. The problem is less the shape of the solution
than the path to get there. The mirage of a peaceful one-state
solution is one more barrier to real progress.
Barry Levine

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