Macron says recognizing a Palestinian state 'not a taboo' for France
Macron says recognizing a Palestinian state 'not a taboo' for France
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Macron says recognizing a Palestinian state 'not a taboo' for France
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Imagine if people proposed organizing a Colored State in apartheid South Africa.
Like they cannot even conceive that Israelis could live in peace with the people they oppress.
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People did propose organizing a colored state in apartheid South Africa. More specifically, a white-colored state, which I suppose would inherently make the rest of South Africa the colored state.
There are still white South Africans practicing segregation, with a two-state solution as their goal.
I would have much preferred a one-state solution in Israel with equal rights granted to every Palestinian, but with the way the conflict has developed at this point, I don't think Israelis can peacefully coexist with Palestinians, the former of which have shown they cannot stop oppressing people and the latter of which are understandably out for vengeance.
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It's possible they could, but it's risky to count on, the history of countries where very different groups who hate eachother have been forced into one country, generally in post colonial states, is full of examples of the situation devolving into civil war and genocide. The two state solution is by no means ideal, but at least in the short term, I think it would stand a better chance of stopping at least the worst of the violence so that things can calm down in the region.
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Otoh, dividing places into arbitrary multiple states has also led to multiple wars and conflicts all the over world, from Pakistan and Afghanistan to basically all of Africa and Israel itself. Israel would just keep oppressing the Palestinian state as the world has already shown they're more on their side. The South African solution would be way better here.
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Israel was attacked multiple times in the past well before current events. At this point I would answer - not in the nearest future - too much blood on both sides. Can you incision organizations like Hamas removing destruction of Israel (genocide) from their main goals?
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Wow so brave. "People are allowed to speak about something different than only an Apartheids state existing".
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It took him long enough to finally agree
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Not a taboo at all. We're not going to say it, but not a taboo