Israel and Palestine

[Zinneke]

This thread is a Bad Idea guys...

Only because it is boring. Nobody cares anymore.

Just wait until a new eruption of violence is back on the TV screen. Meanwhile Netenyahu and Abbas turn up the rhetoric at the UN and the rest of the world rinses itself selling weapons on the cheap (or in the US's case, actually giving them millions to buy weapons) then having to rebuild Gaza/West Bank with humanitarian aid.

[Zinneke]

Do you believe Palestinian identity is - as per your interpretation of Zionism - essentialist, or a made up community, DavidB?

[Zinneke]

Seems to me like he is praising the diaspora you belong to (far more than any state of Israel that you occasionally visit). I wouldn't go so hard on him. I think Ernest needs to realise though that post-war Europe is not exactly home for Jews and their diaspora who were ratted out by their neighbours in a time of structural antisemitism. The absurd idea that they'd walk back into their old homes after their stay in the concentration camps is partly why European powers ensured the state of Israel's existence. The diaspora that currently resides in our countries though should feel safe by now.

May I ask what your interpretation of a Jewish state is, in order to answer Ernests misgivings? Do you support a secular one-state solution state or a more confederal 2 state solution that allows such a Jewish state?