John Hilly
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Mielenkiintoinen liike siirtokuntalaisten ja PLO:n tukijoiden kesken uudentyyppisen kahden valtion unionin muodostamiseksi
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“Two States, One Homeland”: A new solution for peace between Israelis and Palestinians
The peace negotiations between the leaders are at a deadlock, the relevance of a two-state solution seems to be decreasing and the binational solution endangers the Jewish identity of Israel- but maybe there is another solution: A new initiative, backed by Israeli settlers and Palestinians, is calling for Israel and Palestine to become two states under a joint union, similar to the EU.
Beiruti and Cohen
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news...peace-between-israelis-and-palestinians-21334
Tässä voisi olla ideaa...
“Two States, One Homeland”: A new solution for peace between Israelis and Palestinians
The peace negotiations between the leaders are at a deadlock, the relevance of a two-state solution seems to be decreasing and the binational solution endangers the Jewish identity of Israel- but maybe there is another solution: A new initiative, backed by Israeli settlers and Palestinians, is calling for Israel and Palestine to become two states under a joint union, similar to the EU.
Beiruti and Cohen
It is a picture that is hard to imagine: Muhammad Beiruti, a Palestinian from Ramallah who supports the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), sitting and talking with Eliaz Cohen, an Israeli settler from Kfar Etzion. Both of them are convinced that this land cannot be split up. “Everything is mixed together,” explained Cohen. “The fence is a tear in the view but more than that, it isn’t effective and it will probably not create good neighbors on either side.” Beiruti added: “Every day, people are going over and under the fence, it doesn’t provide security- it’s just ugly.”
Beiruti and Cohen are two prominent members of “Two States, One Homeland,” a new movement whose principles regarding its approach to the Israeli Palestinian conflict were composed during hundreds of meetings that were conducted, secretly, on both sides of the Green Line over the past four years. On the Israeli side, several settlers from Gush Etzion are very prominent in the movement. These settlers explain that their views changed in recent years. “It took me a while to break free from the fear of a Palestinian state,” Cohen admitted.
“Our plan is really very simple- two independent and sovereign states that belong to a joint union and have strong interactions: open borders, joint rights and perhaps even a joint court for human rights,” explained Meyer Yoshua, another prominent Two States, One Homeland activist. “Everyone can live where he wants to live in these two countries. This is the idea.”
Beiruti explained that “the Palestinians who want to live in Palestine can [live] even in Efrat. The Israelis who want to live in Ramallah can [live there]. Settlers will no longer be ‘settlers,’ they will be Israeli citizens who live in a Palestinian state or Palestinian citizens. We will find the solutions.”
“We need to free ourselves from this fear, that it would just be like the 1929 Palestine riots, which has been disabling us for years,” insisted Cohen. “We aren’t delusional. The person who is delusional is the one who allows the fear to control him. Bibi [Benjamin] Netanyahu is delusional. Naftali Bennett, who calls Palestinians a ‘shrapnel in the butt’- an entire group of people-, is delusional. We are killing each other and cannot imagine a different reality. The reality in which we live today is delusional,” he concluded.
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news...peace-between-israelis-and-palestinians-21334