Danny, fresh from the dentist, seeks relief in Derek’s news recap. This week: a Gaza War update (0:31); the U.S. attacks another weapons depot in Syria (16:51); Ansar Allah (Houthi) forces in Yemen down an American drone (18:31); Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah makes a speech on the region’s crisis (19:58); opium cultivation in Afghanistan is at a new low after the U.S. withdrawal (22:17); a major rebel offensive in Myanmar (23:59); in Sudan, the RSF advances in Darfur and near the South Sudan border (26:13); Putin to run for re-election while Russia quits the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) (28:41); the North Atlantic appears to be pushing for peace talks for the Ukraine War (29:56); the European Union advances Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia candidacies (32:48); peace talks with FARC-EMC groups suspended in Colombia (34:43); and more bad climate news (36:31).
I remember when Israel removed the Gaza settlers , 8 to 10,000 people and it was to say the least a huge drama . I do realize if they move the West Bank & East Jerusalem settlers it will not be done in the way they are doing it to the Gaza people, that is why I use the word facilitate the move. It just seems to me that one state solution idea is more popular outside of Israel & occupied territories.
Please explain why it is impossible to have two State solution implemented? Is it because of the number of settlers in the West Bank? If Israel moved/pushed/encouraged over a million people move to south Gaza , & suggest Sinai, couldn’t they technically facilitate moving over 700000 settlers to behind the Green line?
Is it impossible because of the uproar
Politically the Israeli Gov would have to deal with internally so there is no political will to do so? Would appreciate some more details on the idea of “ impossible” .
Nov 11, 2023Liked by Derek Davison, American Prestige
I mean sure, technically they could do it, but the transfer of Palestinians from the North to the South of Gaza is being done under the threat of extreme violence, which is not something they would ever deploy against their own people. The settlers also wield an outsized degree of influence over Israeli politics, and so a confrontation with them is tantamount to political suicide (or, in the case of Yitzhak Rabin, actual suicide). So the only territory left for a Palestinian state to be built on would be an extremely cantonized West Bank, and whatever’s left of the Gaza Strip after this war is over. It goes without saying that such a state would be dead on arrival.
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Thank you , good points
I remember when Israel removed the Gaza settlers , 8 to 10,000 people and it was to say the least a huge drama . I do realize if they move the West Bank & East Jerusalem settlers it will not be done in the way they are doing it to the Gaza people, that is why I use the word facilitate the move. It just seems to me that one state solution idea is more popular outside of Israel & occupied territories.
Please explain why it is impossible to have two State solution implemented? Is it because of the number of settlers in the West Bank? If Israel moved/pushed/encouraged over a million people move to south Gaza , & suggest Sinai, couldn’t they technically facilitate moving over 700000 settlers to behind the Green line?
Is it impossible because of the uproar
Politically the Israeli Gov would have to deal with internally so there is no political will to do so? Would appreciate some more details on the idea of “ impossible” .
I mean sure, technically they could do it, but the transfer of Palestinians from the North to the South of Gaza is being done under the threat of extreme violence, which is not something they would ever deploy against their own people. The settlers also wield an outsized degree of influence over Israeli politics, and so a confrontation with them is tantamount to political suicide (or, in the case of Yitzhak Rabin, actual suicide). So the only territory left for a Palestinian state to be built on would be an extremely cantonized West Bank, and whatever’s left of the Gaza Strip after this war is over. It goes without saying that such a state would be dead on arrival.