Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Yes, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism [View all]Little Tich
(6,171 posts)All I want to happen in the I/P conflict is a solution where the civil rights of all involved are retained and not diminished in any way. A solution could be one state, two states or whatever - I don't care. I personally think that the way things are, with the settlements and the PA nothing more than an Israeli puppet, the one-state solution seems to be the simplest way to provide equal civil rights for all. Israelis and Palestinians just have to get along. While land swaps are fine in theory, it's not possible to make swaps of equal quality. If Israel offers an acre in the Negev, it can be swapped for another acre in the Negev...
The reason why I think the 1947 partition plan was a bad idea, is simply because it didn't take the rights of the majority of the population in Palestine into account. The rights of Arab Palestinians to not having Palestine partitioned, especially for Arabs in areas allotted to the Jewish state, are just as valid as the rights of Jewish Palestinians to their independence. I think it would have been possible to accommodate the wills of both peoples without partitioning Palestine. However, the 1947 partition plan was a historical oddity, and neither side did anything to implement it.