* Israel should separate itself from the West bank settlements
Posted by Lew Weinstein on June 12, 2009
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Several days ago, I posted a long letter from Robert K. Lifton on the subject of Israel’s policy toward the West Ban settlements. Here are brief extracts from Mr. Lifton’s previously posted letter …
Israel showing Gaza & the West Bank
- the present policy of the Netanyahu government that would result in further growth of the settler population holds out the possibility for serious dispute between the US and Israeli administrations.
- it also has the potential to threaten the very essence of Israel as a Jewish state.
- if Israel were to incorporate the Territories as part of a Greater Israel, ultimately a majority of its population would be Palestinian. In that case, it would
- either have to end its position as a Jewish State
- or disenfranchise the Palestinian population and no longer continue as a democratic state.
- (the far better policy is) that Israel should separate itself from the Territories.
LMW COMMENT … Bob Lifton has been for many years one of the clearest thinkers on the issues that plague the state of Israel. Here, he puts forward a policy that right wing Israelis find hard to accept. Those Jews and others in America who uncritically support every Israeli policy will find Mr. Lifton’s prescription unacceptable. More reasonable people throughout the world who believe a two-state solution to the Palestine-Israel problem is the only solution, will take comfort in Mr. Lifton’s analysis.
read Bob Lifton’s entire letter at … * Robert K. Lifton: expanding Israel’s West Bank settlements is not in Israel’s best interest
Yisrael Medad, Shiloh, Israel said
There are many reasons people have for not liking Jewish residential communities in Judea and Samaria and one is the so-called demographic demon, as Lifton points out: “if Israel were to incorporate the Territories as part of a Greater Israel, ultimately a majority of its population would be Palestinian”.
But think: if the demographics truly are that bad (and I dispute that), will we have to face the same situation in 20 years in the Gallil? Should we perhaps initiate a “stop the Arab natural growth campaign” as well, in tandem to stopping our growth?
Can we try this alternative idea?
Let’s start calling all Arab residential locations in Israel, pre-67 Israel, “settlements”.
And we say: what goes down for the Jews in Judea & Samaria, goes for the Arabs of Israel. After all if you all claim Jews can’t and shouldn’t live among Arabs in their state, why should Arabs be permitted a prerogative and be able to live in Israel? Is “Palestine” a unique entity? in a Jewish state. Or is only an Arab state allowed to act in such an inhuman and immoral fashion of telling me I can’t live in Shiloh?
Why should the original Mandate area intended to be the reconstituted Jewish national home evolve into three states, two (Jordan & “Palestine”) Arab with no Jews and one Jewish state but with a 20% Arab minority? That’s fair?