Another Call to End Israel

Jeez, what a shock!

On Daily Kos yet another writer is suggesting that the only way toward peace is for Israel to incorporate the West Bank and Gaza into Israel proper and dissolve itself as a Jewish state.

In A Modest Proposal for the Settlements on the Israeli West Bank the diarist writes:


I've long thought a two-state solution - with "Palestine" bifurcated down the middle by their hated Israel, was a geopolitical impossibility. By forcing these two people's to live together, at least those who are realistic, with a common interest in their mutual housing and environs, both people would be moving toward the inevitable co-mingling of their populations.

Forcing?

Forcing people to live together?

Wha?

This diarist is honestly suggesting that the only way to achieve peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians is for some outside power to force Israel to dissolve itself as a Jewish state. Just which outside power(s), however, he does not specify. Should the UN attack Israel in order to force compliance? Should some combination of the Arab states yet again attack Israel or should the US and the EU do the deed?

He doesn't say.

He does however have an interesting suggestion regarding the WB settlements:

I propose the following: Keep the settlements, but - after thorough screening and background checks - allow one third of the new apartments to go to Palestinian families (the apartments must be of equal quality). If the Palestinian families don't have the money, I think the U.S. or international community could be persuaded to cough it up in the interest of peace and interdependency. We've certainly subsidized lesser causes.

In other words, after some outside force has compelled Israel to dissolve itself, the US or the international community should fork over money to Palestinians so that they can move into (for some arbitrary reason) one third of the new housing units. Why, I wonder, one third? Why not half? Why not three quarters?

Of course, after the horrific war, resulting in the slaughter of perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, which this diarist is unwittingly suggesting, there should be an overabundance of available housing, thus causing real estate prices to crash. This will be helpful to any one looking for new digs, eh?

In any case, this Daily Kos diary represents yet another example of the sheer stupidity that has taken hold among some on the liberal left viz-a-viz Israel. While it must be noted that this diary did not get a whole lot of play on dKos, because most of its members are not nearly so stupid as to agree with this diarist (or so one hopes), it nonetheless sits there as a tribute to the absolute blindness and arrogance of well-meaning people who have not the slightest clue what they are talking about.

He goes on to write:

It is time for new solutions. The road map was a dead-end. The Two-State solution is a geopolitical impossibility. The annihilation of Israel is in no one's interest, not even the Arabs...

The annihilation of Israel is in no one's interest. I couldn't agree more. However, if that is the case, then what can "forcing" Israel into the single-state solution possibly mean?

As Schiller long ago wrote, "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."

Indeed.