What has passed between these two So Called World Leaders depends upon
your gender preference.
Our feminine side would say they were spreading Cow Pies.
Our masculine side would call it spreading Bull Shit.
Nonetheless, male or female, crap is crap.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/17/17, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://socialistaction.org/2017/02/17/netanyahus-white-house-visit-and-the-two-state-solution/
Netanyahu’s White House visit and the ‘two-state solution’
/ 1 min ago
march-2017-palest-chiBy MARK UGOLINI
CHICAGO—On Feb. 15 more than 200 Palestinians and their supporters
converged on Trump Tower to protest the White House visit of Israel
President Benjamin Netanyahu. Several buses from local mosques
transported protesters, who held signs and shouted chants demanding:
“Free Free Palestine!” “Justice is our Demand. No Peace on Stolen Land!”
and “From Palestine to Mexico. Border Walls Have got to Go!”
Marching behind a banner “Build Bridges Not Walls,” immigration rights
was a powerful theme. At the rally speakers expressed solidarity with
all groups fighting the new wave of anti-immigrant and anti-refugee
attacks.
Vivian Khalaf, an Immigration Attorney from the Arab American Action
Network, explained how Trump lies when he says a wall on the Mexican
border is for “security” and “protection.”
“Donald Trump told Fox News the other day that ‘a wall protects. All you
have to do is ask Israel.’ Really? … We don’t need a wall [on the Mexico
border]… The huge concrete wall built by the Israelis is inside the West
Bank, … it is not a ‘security wall’ Mr. Trump! The purpose of this wall
is to unilaterally annex the land on which the majority of Israel’s
illegal settlements and outposts currently stand. This is a separation
wall, Mr. Trump, an apartheid wall … the likes of which we have never,
ever seen before!”
The White House visit came at a time most advantageous to Netanyahu, who
at home is plagued with multiple criminal corruption charges and harsh
attacks from the far-right party. He hoped to bolster his sagging
reputation by showcasing strong ties with the also embattled Republican
Party administration.
One goal is to prod Trump to take aggressive measures against Iran,
including sanctions and potential military actions to counter Iran’s
missile program and steps taken to expand its influence. Netanyahu
accuses Iran of “mischief” around the world, including its support for
Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Assad regime in Syria, and Palestinian
resistance in Gaza and the West Bank.
The White House discussions, however, focused primarily on the “stalled
peace process.” At the joint press conference, Trump for the first time
broke from decades-long U.S. policy promoting the so-called “two state
solution.” Trump said: “I am looking at two states or one state, and I
like the one that both parties like.”
Netanyahu again repeated his long-held opposition to Palestinian
sovereignty, insisting that Israel must remain a Jewish-exclusive state,
and retain “security [military] control of the entire area west of the
Jordan River.” This ensures that Palestinians would forever remain under
military rule, without basic rights.
The “two-state” formula, as originally conceived, allows for an
independent, viable, and sovereign Palestinian state co-existing
alongside Israel’s Jewish state. However, due to ongoing expansion of
illegal settlements and Israeli military rule over the years, any state
granted to Palestinians would not be sovereign or viable, and would
likely bear striking resemblance to the Bantustans imposed on Blacks in
apartheid South Africa.
Since it was proclaimed in 1948, Israel has protected its exclusive
character and demographic majority via over 50 racist laws, codified by
Israel’s Supreme Court. The discourse around the “two-state solution”
has helped veil the racist and exclusionary nature of Israel’s Jewish
state. Liberal Zionists fear that waning relevance of the “two-state
solution” brings the supremacist character of the Jewish state into
sharper focus.
In the Feb. 15 New York Times, Thomas Friedman, a long-time “two-state”
proponent, expressed growing concerns of many liberal Zionists that its
demise unveils Israel’s true nature:
“As long as the two-state solution was on the table, the debate among
Jews on Israel was ‘right versus left’ and ‘more security versus less
security. ’… But we could mostly all agree that for Israel to remain a
Jewish democratic state, it had to securely separate from most of the
2.7 million West Bank Palestinians. … But if Netanyahu’s weak leadership
and the overreach of the settlers in his party end up erasing the
two-state solution, the debate within the Jewish community will move
from ‘left versus right’ to ‘right versus wrong.’”
Here Friedman ignores, almost as inconsequential, the facts that more
than two million Palestinians live under a barbaric siege and military
rule in Gaza, and more than 6 million Palestinians remain in diaspora
around the world, unable to return to their homeland.
However, Friedman’s words reveal how supporting a Palestinian state
makes it much easier to justify the existence of the colonial state of
Israel and Jewish supremacy. Without the ability to credibly argue for a
Palestinian state, one must confront squarely the reality of Israel’s
Zionist system of oppression and the racist subjugation of the
Palestinian people.
A backdrop to Netanyahu’s visit is massive opposition within Israel to
any recognition of Palestinians, and outright support for continued land
theft and annexations. On Feb. 13 Netanyahu pushed the “Regularization
Law” through the Knesset. This outrageous law sanctions expropriation of
private Palestinian land illegally occupied by Jewish settlers in the
West Bank. It is one example of Israeli legislation imposed on
Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank, who have lived under military
occupation since 1967—forbidden citizenship and all democratic rights,
including the right to vote.
This racist law is the latest in a series of steps promoted by settler
groups, and enacted by Israel since the election of Donald Trump. Soon
after he took office, Israel announced plans to build over 6000 settler
homes on Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
After expressing staunch support for illegal Israeli settlements during
his election campaign, and after ignoring the initial series of
settlement expansion announcements since his election, Trump on Feb. 2
said that settlements “may not be helpful.” But after the
“Regularization Law” was passed on Feb. 13, the Trump administration
signaled it would wait to see how Israel’s courts would interpret the
law before it comments.
As an alternative to the “two-state” approach, Trump raised what some
have referred to as an “outside-in” negotiating strategy, calling on
Saudi Arabia and other Arab states friendly with Israel to help impose a
solution on the Palestinians. This is a method previous administrations
have attempted. One variant of this strategy is an agreement that allows
outright annexation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Israel, with
Palestinians directed to live under Jordanian rule.
Any future annexations will extend and deepen Israel’s apartheid rule
over Palestinians. Since all Palestinians in occupied territories remain
non-citizens, they are subject to military rule and denied all basic
democratic rights.
History has shown that Palestinians will never accept a “solution” that
leaves them living in squalor and poverty, without equal social or
political rights, and without equal access to natural resources,
housing, and other necessities of life.
The master-slave relationship must end before a truly just society can
be built—a democratic and secular state throughout all of historic
Palestine, which recognizes full and equal rights to all regardless of
religion, race, or national origin.
Revolutionary Marxists believe that as an oppressed nationality
Palestinians can never achieve true self-determination and full equality
in the context of capitalism. We advocate the struggle for socialism,
which must entail the overturn of Zionist colonialism led by the
Palestinian and Israeli working classes united in struggle. The unity
forged needs to be grounded in the resolute support of Jewish workers
for Palestinian equal rights.
Photo: Mark Ugolini / Socialist Action
.
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Netanyahu’s White House visit and the ‘two-state solution’
/ 1 min ago
march-2017-palest-chiBy MARK UGOLINI
CHICAGO—On Feb. 15 more than 200 Palestinians and their supporters
converged on Trump Tower to protest the White House visit of Israel
President Benjamin Netanyahu. Several buses from local mosques
transported protesters, who held signs and shouted chants demanding:
“Free Free Palestine!” “Justice is our Demand. No Peace on Stolen Land!”
and “From Palestine to Mexico. Border Walls Have got to Go!”
Marching behind a banner “Build Bridges Not Walls,” immigration rights
was a powerful theme. At the rally speakers expressed solidarity with
all groups fighting the new wave of anti-immigrant and anti-refugee
attacks.
Vivian Khalaf, an Immigration Attorney from the Arab American Action
Network, explained how Trump lies when he says a wall on the Mexican
border is for “security” and “protection.”
“Donald Trump told Fox News the other day that ‘a wall protects. All you
have to do is ask Israel.’ Really? … We don’t need a wall [on the Mexico
border]… The huge concrete wall built by the Israelis is inside the West
Bank, … it is not a ‘security wall’ Mr. Trump! The purpose of this wall
is to unilaterally annex the land on which the majority of Israel’s
illegal settlements and outposts currently stand. This is a separation
wall, Mr. Trump, an apartheid wall … the likes of which we have never,
ever seen before!”
The White House visit came at a time most advantageous to Netanyahu, who
at home is plagued with multiple criminal corruption charges and harsh
attacks from the far-right party. He hoped to bolster his sagging
reputation by showcasing strong ties with the also embattled Republican
Party administration.
One goal is to prod Trump to take aggressive measures against Iran,
including sanctions and potential military actions to counter Iran’s
missile program and steps taken to expand its influence. Netanyahu
accuses Iran of “mischief” around the world, including its support for
Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Assad regime in Syria, and Palestinian
resistance in Gaza and the West Bank.
The White House discussions, however, focused primarily on the “stalled
peace process.” At the joint press conference, Trump for the first time
broke from decades-long U.S. policy promoting the so-called “two state
solution.” Trump said: “I am looking at two states or one state, and I
like the one that both parties like.”
Netanyahu again repeated his long-held opposition to Palestinian
sovereignty, insisting that Israel must remain a Jewish-exclusive state,
and retain “security [military] control of the entire area west of the
Jordan River.” This ensures that Palestinians would forever remain under
military rule, without basic rights.
The “two-state” formula, as originally conceived, allows for an
independent, viable, and sovereign Palestinian state co-existing
alongside Israel’s Jewish state. However, due to ongoing expansion of
illegal settlements and Israeli military rule over the years, any state
granted to Palestinians would not be sovereign or viable, and would
likely bear striking resemblance to the Bantustans imposed on Blacks in
apartheid South Africa.
Since it was proclaimed in 1948, Israel has protected its exclusive
character and demographic majority via over 50 racist laws, codified by
Israel’s Supreme Court. The discourse around the “two-state solution”
has helped veil the racist and exclusionary nature of Israel’s Jewish
state. Liberal Zionists fear that waning relevance of the “two-state
solution” brings the supremacist character of the Jewish state into
sharper focus.
In the Feb. 15 New York Times, Thomas Friedman, a long-time “two-state”
proponent, expressed growing concerns of many liberal Zionists that its
demise unveils Israel’s true nature:
“As long as the two-state solution was on the table, the debate among
Jews on Israel was ‘right versus left’ and ‘more security versus less
security. ’… But we could mostly all agree that for Israel to remain a
Jewish democratic state, it had to securely separate from most of the
2.7 million West Bank Palestinians. … But if Netanyahu’s weak leadership
and the overreach of the settlers in his party end up erasing the
two-state solution, the debate within the Jewish community will move
from ‘left versus right’ to ‘right versus wrong.’”
Here Friedman ignores, almost as inconsequential, the facts that more
than two million Palestinians live under a barbaric siege and military
rule in Gaza, and more than 6 million Palestinians remain in diaspora
around the world, unable to return to their homeland.
However, Friedman’s words reveal how supporting a Palestinian state
makes it much easier to justify the existence of the colonial state of
Israel and Jewish supremacy. Without the ability to credibly argue for a
Palestinian state, one must confront squarely the reality of Israel’s
Zionist system of oppression and the racist subjugation of the
Palestinian people.
A backdrop to Netanyahu’s visit is massive opposition within Israel to
any recognition of Palestinians, and outright support for continued land
theft and annexations. On Feb. 13 Netanyahu pushed the “Regularization
Law” through the Knesset. This outrageous law sanctions expropriation of
private Palestinian land illegally occupied by Jewish settlers in the
West Bank. It is one example of Israeli legislation imposed on
Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank, who have lived under military
occupation since 1967—forbidden citizenship and all democratic rights,
including the right to vote.
This racist law is the latest in a series of steps promoted by settler
groups, and enacted by Israel since the election of Donald Trump. Soon
after he took office, Israel announced plans to build over 6000 settler
homes on Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
After expressing staunch support for illegal Israeli settlements during
his election campaign, and after ignoring the initial series of
settlement expansion announcements since his election, Trump on Feb. 2
said that settlements “may not be helpful.” But after the
“Regularization Law” was passed on Feb. 13, the Trump administration
signaled it would wait to see how Israel’s courts would interpret the
law before it comments.
As an alternative to the “two-state” approach, Trump raised what some
have referred to as an “outside-in” negotiating strategy, calling on
Saudi Arabia and other Arab states friendly with Israel to help impose a
solution on the Palestinians. This is a method previous administrations
have attempted. One variant of this strategy is an agreement that allows
outright annexation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Israel, with
Palestinians directed to live under Jordanian rule.
Any future annexations will extend and deepen Israel’s apartheid rule
over Palestinians. Since all Palestinians in occupied territories remain
non-citizens, they are subject to military rule and denied all basic
democratic rights.
History has shown that Palestinians will never accept a “solution” that
leaves them living in squalor and poverty, without equal social or
political rights, and without equal access to natural resources,
housing, and other necessities of life.
The master-slave relationship must end before a truly just society can
be built—a democratic and secular state throughout all of historic
Palestine, which recognizes full and equal rights to all regardless of
religion, race, or national origin.
Revolutionary Marxists believe that as an oppressed nationality
Palestinians can never achieve true self-determination and full equality
in the context of capitalism. We advocate the struggle for socialism,
which must entail the overturn of Zionist colonialism led by the
Palestinian and Israeli working classes united in struggle. The unity
forged needs to be grounded in the resolute support of Jewish workers
for Palestinian equal rights.
Photo: Mark Ugolini / Socialist Action
.
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