A One State Solution for Israel and Arab Palestine


Our (America, Britain, etc.) support for Israel and subsequent disenfranchisement of Arab Palestinians has been a major fuel for Middle Eastern turmoil. I believe that a re-united Palestine would make a more peaceful Middle East. I would work toward this goal on several fronts.

Front #1- Educate the general public in America, Great Britain and elsewhere about the Nakbas of 1948-49 and 1967. Nakba is Arabic for catastrophe. These events are buried under decades of Israeli and pro-Israel Western propaganda. During the Nakbas hundreds of thousands of Arab Palestinians were forcibly driven from villages within Israel and the West Bank. I intend to educate the Western public about the atrocities committed against Palestinian Arabs during these events by writing books on the issue and creating educational website content.

Front #2- I intend to organize the Arabs of the West Bank. I will convince West Bank Arabs that their brightest and best of possible futures would be for the West Bank the be formally annexed as part of Israel. To the uninformed this might sound like a hard sell. I disagree. West Bank residents desperately want to enjoy the same rights as Israelis. The majority will gladly live side by side with Jews of they could enjoy equal rights with them. I will go through the entire West Bank and get the entire population to sign petitions favoring annexation to Israel. I will organize peaceful demonstrations in which Arabs will demand equal rights with Israeli citizens. The West Bank has been under Israeli rule for 4 decades. It is time for Israel to acknowledge that these people are human beings with the same rights as Israelis.

Front #3- Organize Israelis to vote in favor of annexation of the West Bank. Again, this sounds like a hard sell. If the West Bank is annexed as a formal part of Israel the ratio of Muslims to Jews tightens. This means more Arabs in the Knesset, a likely repeal of the Jewish Land Law, and the loss of Israel’s specifically Jewish character. This is exactly why Israel has never officially annexed the West Bank. I will gain a majority of Israeli citizens for the annexation referendum by working with particular Israeli factions.
Currently, one out of four babies born in Israel is Muslim. Muslims that managed to stay in Israel despite the Nakba of 1948-49 now make up a significant part of the Israeli population. In theory, they enjoy the same rights as Jewish Israelis, but in practice they are banned from military service and can not buy land because of the Jewish Land Law. The addition of West Bank Arabs to this voting block is likely to lead to the repeal of such discriminatory legislation.
Israelis who feel guilty compose another faction I can work with. The younger generation of Israelis is much more accepting of Arabs and much more accepting of the concept that Israel has committed atrocities against Arab Palestinians. They feel a guilt similar to the guilt that Americans feel toward American Natives and slavery. Guilt laden Israelis could be persuaded to vote in favor of West Bank annexation.

In summary, dispelling myths created by Israeli and Western propaganda, educating the public about Nakba, working with key voting blocks, and formally annexing the West Bank to Israel will defuse unrest in much of the Middle East.



Jennifer Ishtar Kenyon

Palestinians are beyond peaceful rebellion. The Israelis are beyond peaceful suppression.

If you want to unite Palestinians Israeli and Western "propaganda" will be half your problem. The other half will be the lies disseminated by hard line Arab states and extremists who have an iron grip on the Palestinian psyche.

[quote="Humania"]Your position is apathetic. You make it sound as if the problem is beyond any solutions. I refuse to accept that the problem can not be solved.[quote]

Palestinians in the West Bank have been in a state of statelessness for over 40 years. This is what has a grip on their psyche. If given the opportunity to enjoy the same rights as Israelis, they will jump at it. West Bankers are not radicalized. They simply want to be re-enfranchised.

The state of statelessness means that the population finds other means for expression of their feelings other than their own government. This expression has come in the form of other Arab states adopting the Palestinian "cause." I've lived all over the middle east including Lebanon & Israel. Personal experience has led me to believe that your idea is flawed in as much as it "takes sides." I'm not stupid. Even though your solution comes in the guises of impartiality we both know that if the Arabs are officially incorporated into Israel they will outnumber the Jews in a generation. Both government and citizen know this which is why nobody in a position of political power in Israel will adopt a one state solution because it won't be difficult for them to conclude that such a "solution" is not in their long-term interest. From the Palestinian side - again I'm talking from personal experience -I doubt they want to be incorporated into a state that has starved and exploited them for decades. Obviously they stand most to gain from your solution but they will not see it this way. If they have been oppressed by the Israelis in a state of statelessness, why would they have reason to believe that things will be any better under direct Israeli rule, if not worse?

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The state of statelessness means that the population finds other means for expression of their feelings other than their own government. This expression has come in the form of other Arab states adopting the Palestinian "cause." I've lived all over the middle east including Lebanon & Israel. Personal experience has led me to believe that your idea is flawed in as much as it "takes sides." I'm not stupid. Even though your solution comes in the guises of impartiality we both know that if the Arabs are officially incorporated into Israel they will outnumber the Jews in a generation. Both government and citizen know this which is why nobody in a position of political power in Israel will adopt a one state solution because it won't be difficult for them to conclude that such a "solution" is not in their long-term interest. From the Palestinian side - again I'm talking from personal experience -I doubt they want to be incorporated into a state that has starved and exploited them for decades. Obviously they stand most to gain from your solution but they will not see it this way. If they have been oppressed by the Israelis in a state of statelessness, why would they have reason to believe that things will be any better under direct Israeli rule, if not worse?[/quote]


Listen, you fucking Jew, my solution does not come in the guise of impartiality. Israel is not a democracy in the Western sense. It is a Judeo-ethnic form of democracy. My plan would leave Israel's government intact, but remove it's Jedeo-ethnic character. The Palestinians will understand how much they have to gain. Arabs within Israel will understand how much they have to gain. Currently, Arabs make up twenty percent of Israel's voting block. I only need to gain another thirty percent of Israel's voting block to push through a referendum. Jewish Israeli historian Ilan Pappe has been educating young Israelis about Israels ethnic cleansing crimes. I intend to capitalize on Jewish guilt to gain thirty percent of Jewish Israeli voters.

Listen, you fucking Jew, my solution does not come in the guise of impartiality. Israel is not a democracy in the Western sense. It is a Judeo-ethnic form of democracy. My plan would leave Israel's government intact, but remove it's Jedeo-ethnic character. The Palestinians will understand how much they have to gain. Arabs within Israel will understand how much they have to gain. Currently, Arabs make up twenty percent of Israel's voting block. I only need to gain another thirty percent of Israel's voting block to push through a referendum. Jewish Israeli historian Ilan Pappe has been educating young Israelis about Israels ethnic cleansing crimes. I intend to capitalize on Jewish guilt to gain thirty percent of Jewish Israeli voters.[/quote]

Listen, you fucking honky, you won't be able to seduce the Jews into giving up their ethnic self-determination by deliberately making them a minority in their own country.

I don't intend to seduce the Jews. Sooner or later, Palestine is going to be re-unified. The Jewish experiment has failed. No amount of bombing Gaza or bulldozing homes in the West Bank is going to change it. The world stood by while Palestinian Arabs were robbed of their right to ethnic self determination. Jews are a minority in Palestine. Ultimately, lines drawn in the sand won't change this.