Avskaffa Israel?

The Palestinians are not an obscure mean folk. They created the Star of Ghassul, wrote the Bible, built the temples of Jerusalem and Garizim, the palaces of Jericho and Samaria, the churches of the Holy Sepulchre and Nativity, the mosques of Haram a-Sharif, the harbours of Caesarea and Akka, the castles of Monfort and Belvoir. They walked with Jesus, defeated Napoleon and bravely fought at Karameh...

The fantasy of the Jewish ingathering has collided with the reality. We must end the delusion. Let the sons and daughters of Palestine come back and rebuild Suba and Kakun, Jaffa and Akka. Instead of consecrating the Green Line, let us erase it and live together, the children of Palestine, of first settlers, of Moroccans and Russians.

We should live in one state, not only because of the blatant failure of Oslo. The very idea of partition is wrong. We can follow the example of New Zealand, where the European incomers live together with the native Maori, the example of Mandela's South Africa, the example of Caribbean, where children of Spanish settlers, African slaves and native Amerindians blended into the beautiful new race.

There is a clear an present danger that the Jewish version of Taliban is gaining momentum and gaining power. The the number of fundamentalist religious officers in the IDF is over 30% and growing. As one who believes in the secular democracy I feel this is the biggest threat to both people. Our main concern as Israelis and Palestinians should be the irreversibility of the situation. In other words, that it will become too late to create a real secular democracy because these soldiers of God, who see themselves as the successors of the fringe zealots who tried to bring down the Roman Empire....

Israelis, Jews, Palestinians and everyone else who is still stuck in the notion of a Jewish state, take a good look at this photo. Then read the news, travel to Hebron, Kiryat Arba, Karmei Tsur and some of the other Jewish-zealot colonies in the West Bank. Walk around the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem and talk to the settlers who want to turn Silwan into the “City of David.” Talk to these people who see this as a zero sum game and think nothing of killing Palestinian children.