In light of recent events in Israel and Palestine, it seems appropriate to put forth a suggestion on how this seemingly never-ending conflict could be solved. To end the ongoing violence in the region, many pro-Palestinians are calling for the complete abolition of the Israeli state. This is actually not a bad idea, but it only addresses part of the problem. The real solution is to abolish both the Israeli and Palestinian states — for as long as these governments exist, there can be no peace and freedom in the region. FULL ARTICLE
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Sorry Mr Bergstrom. You have missed the whole point. Think about it. Way before the State of Israel was there, a war against the Palestinians was going on. Absolutely! A war of terrorism I might add. The Zionist from around the turn of the century (1900 ) decided that it was time to establish the promise of God in the Holy Land. You know, kind of like the the Crusades. Get that ungodly presence ( the Palestinians ) out of the Holy Land.
Besides had not God promised that land to the Hebrews? Not only that say the Zionist, but there was another instruction from God. Remember what it was? To cleanse the land of all living things non-Jewish.
There was just one trouble. The Palestinians living there around 1900 didn’t agree that God promised the land to the Jews. They figured it was theirs. And remember this was long before WWII.
Now the Palestinians had lived in peace with Jewish immigrants prior to the incursion of the Zionist. Bergstrom didn’t mention that. They lived in peace together for about 25 years after the Russian Pogroms. It was during this time that the Palestinians reached out to the oppressed Russian Jews and invited them to come and live in peace in Palestine. All that was before the Zionist influence.
No Mr. Bergstrom, the problem is the Zionists and the appeasers of them, in our country specifically and to a lesser degree in Britian and France.
The trouble will never end until one side has killed all the other side unless the World moves to stop the carnage. But the biggest impediment to that is the United States itself.
Thanks for your perspective on this issue Cliff. While I completely agree that most of the aggression has originated in Israel, I would still have to agree with the author that this is a statist war. The most important point of the article being:
The problem, however, isn’t which side is right, i.e., which of the two governments is entitled to control all or parts of the Israeli/Palestinian territory. The problem is the very existence of these two governments to begin with – and the fact that they lay claims to any land at all.
This has always been a war of governments. Conflicts have existed without them, but with them, they’ve been magnified to massive levels. Even before 1948, much of the aggression was supported by imperial powers – governments, and as you state so clearly, the same happens today. Without the US government, Britain and France, there would be a much greater chance for peace.
So, as you’ve said, the problem is the “Zionists and the appeasers of them” – all being governments. I believe that most regular people want peace in their lives, and will get peace when these coercive criminals get out of the way in the region.
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