The 193-member world body approved [September 13] a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly 80-year conflict. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
Ah yes, the approach that’s failing since 80 years surely going to work this time.
It was always going to be a one-state solution. I’d hoped that state would be a pluralistic home for the Israelis and Palestinians, but they’re closer than ever to slamming the door tight on a single ethnostate for Jews, with not so much as a disputed territory beside.
a pluralistic home for the Israelis and Palestinians
Would be a welcome change if diplomatic efforts at least started to attempt a different approach such as this instead of sticking to the same formula that fails since eight decades.
The problem is that it’s a non-starter for the Israelis, who want a formal Jewish ethnostate, not a pluralistic society where they happen to have good representation. Israel is a modern society and despite their best efforts, their birth rate is declining just like every other modern nation. This is a long term problem for them, being massively outnumbered by Muslims in the surrounding region, and having already 2 million Arabs living in Israel, or 20% of the nation. They fear they will fall behind demographically and their grand project will become just another Islamofacist state over time.
And… I guess this is why American conservatism is such an ally?
The “displacement” of ‘traditional’ American Christians (subtext: white) is viewed as an existential issue, and I guess it’s because the birth rates+immigration of other groups is so much higher. This is why they want to end birthright citizenship, clamp down immigration and such, yet still focus on boosting birth rates; its viewed as existential cultural displacement.
Same as some Israelis feel I guess. Do nothing, and Muslims will crowd out Jews. I never really thought about that.
Being afraid of religions or races mixing is, of course, beyond bonkers. I’m ashamed Americans are so afraid of their country turning an ambiguous brown, like its some scary future.
But I guess I see the link more clearly than I did before. MAGA’s support of Israel otherwise feels kinda weird given their antisemetic undercurrents.
Well they might be antisemitic but they hate Arabs too, and with a much less complicated, pure and dehumanizing hatred. At least Jewish people can be mistaken for white.
Plus, if you hate Jews, don’t you want them to have their own country to fuck off to? And if they destabilize and oppress the Arab world in the process? Win-win.
Jewish interests are also just better mobilized in the US. They have a good story as our best ally in a fucked region, and they’ve succeeded in telling that story. As far back as Abraham Lincoln there has also been compassion for the Jewish people and a desire to see them in a secure homeland. But at this point that seems to be a distant third or fourth in terms of motivations to support Israel.
I think you underestimate hardcore MAGA’s antisemitism, lol. And slightly overestimate the racism (which is more ‘oldschool’)
You are not wrong about Jewish mobilization.
There’s just different stories told to different people, I think. Evangelical purists get the ‘cultural contamination’ story to sympathize with (as that’s what they want in the US). Old folks get the decades-old broadcast TV version of Israel. MAGA and oldschool Republicans get the radical islam angle, hardcore MAGA gets a kind of altered reality where Trump is actually the anti-interventionists here (as they still hate Israel), he’s just working towards that, somehow.
I really think most of the branding isn’t ‘brown people.’ Even though there is a lot of islamophobia in the US, one of MAGA’s core tenants is technically non-interventionalism, and most appeals to racism aren’t so explicit.
There’s just different stories told to different people, I think.
Yeah that’s a smart take. Most things work that way.
one of MAGA’s core tenants is technically non-interventionalism
(friendly spell check: you mean tenet, not tenant)
I agree this is supposedly one of their tenets but it’s one they seem very idiosyncratic about. They cry non-intervention when they don’t care about something, but seem happy to call for intervention when they do. Maybe this isn’t cognitive dissonance but just having a high bar for intervention. If their bar criteria were clear, it would be easier to say so.
There is already a two state solution. It’s what is happening currently and Israel has systematically chipped away at it for 75 years. They will not stop until they have erased any possibility of a Palestinian state. The solution is one state where everyone has equal rights.
They have been trying the same shit with Serbia and Albania. Instead of letting us agree on anything, they encourage Albanians to lash out because “we are the bad guys”. We could split Kosovo on the Serbian inhabited side and Albanian. But nooo, they feel entitled to an ethnic cleansing, as if that’s how it’s supposed to work.
We could wipe them off the map before the UN could even react.
I don’t think either side wants that tbh
Two Palestines seems like a lot, but okay
I used to say shit like this out of protest, but people took be literally and villainized me. Glad people recognize a parody nowadays.
I am ashkenazi jewish and i think if the “israelis” want to stay in the holy land, they should be given palestinian citizenship and learn to live alongside their literal cousins. Modern israel is a settler colonial project propped up by the american military industrial compelx and as such will never be an equitable solution.
I just realized this is uplifting news. Of all the things, who is this delusional to think this is actually good news? They are just mucking around and doing nothing. The UN is dead in my eyes.
The holy land is a myth. We are literally killing people over a 2000 year old myth, it is maddening that in modern society we act like we know what the fuck was going on 2000 years ago and someone somewhere owns it bcz a fucking book says so… Hell, we dont know what was going on 50 years ago.
It is holy in the same sense that indigenous lands are sacred. And yet there the zionists go, slaughtering the indigenous. Its almost like it was based on Manifest Destiny (it was)
Only this time the irony is lost on the dickwads doing it. A generation ago their grandparents and parents were the ones getting murdered just for existing. Survivors of the holocaust would be ashamed of their behavior.
No country can claim to back up a two state solution while providing zero concrete measures if israel refuse to do it
Which they will absolutely refuse to do
This requires Israel removing Netanyahu and his far right alliance from power, and Palestine building a stable elected government.
Netanyahu might be removed in the next election because Israelis are fed up with his military aggression that has failed to eliminate Hamas or free the remaining hostages. This is an election year.
The Palestinian authority has to be completely dismantled and rebuilt with new elections and authority to properly govern. Abbas is about to enter the 21st year of his 4 year term.
He was removed in 2022 and barely got back in the last election (Current gov was elected with 49.5% of the voters). Plus for the last 2 years, the polls show the gov parties don’t have nearly enough support to get reelected.
Problem is there’s a high chance they’ll interfere with the elections.And this will have to come with some measures or support for deradicalized education and support for joint Palestinian-Israeli organizations that bring people together like Standing Together, Combatants for Peace, etc.
IIRC, the UN has held this same vote (with the same result) on a regular basis for decades. This isn’t a new development.
Great! I’m sure all 0 living Palestinians remaining will be glad to hear that…
L. One state solution or nothing. These fucking fools
one state solution
Minus the Golan heights, and sure.
The only option
Only if its truely secular
so if you recognise a two state solution then you recognise palestine’s right to defend itself, right? - padme
There’s basically no way two-state will work anymore, right?
Maybe a few decades ago. But even if Bibi was magically removed for the most pro-Palestine government possible, Israel’s war crimes were recognized, and Palestine was rebuilt from rubble with massive aid, it feels like things are ‘written into a corner’ and there is just too much radicalization and spilled blood for two hypothetical states to leave each other alone.
As long as any Palestinian lives, a two-state solution is possible. We need to support the downfall of fascism, and that must occur by support of Palestina and the downfall of oligarchs.
So the UN is gonna execute Netanyahu and his entire cabinet? And oversee the Israli government for the foreseeable future until the state of Palestine is restored and armed equally with Isreal?
That’s what’s required to make this right
There is no two-state solution on stolen land.
It’s so surreal this is referred to as the New York Declaration but the US votes against it. I’m sure there’s history there, but I just see the irony on the surface.
