The 193-member world body approved [September 13] a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly 80-year conflict. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
The 193-member world body approved [September 13] a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly 80-year conflict. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
I think Palestinians have demonstrated over and over that they are willing to stay on the land even at the risk of their own lives.
Israelis, meanwhile, flee the country whenever things get difficult. Their population growth is negative at the moment.
Also, Jim Crow and the defeat of Reconstruction happened because slave owners weren’t imprisoned for their crimes or stripped of their wealth and/or property. They lost their slaves, they didn’t lose their land or even their social or political power. They had business relations and could recover. We don’t have to make that mistake again. Every war criminal goes to prison and pays reparations, every person on stolen land gets their land seized, then you won’t have a similar repeat of Jim Crow.
Not the ones that have fled and you’re counting on to come back.
We repeated Jim Crow in German denazification and Japanese deimperialism-ing, all for the same reason: politicians lost interest. I don’t see why that would change enough to become a guarantee.
Denazification worked, what are you talking about?
The modern German government is very good at going against Nazis, but that is not because of Denazification, which turned into just filing paperwork.
It became the anti-Nazism force it is today due to the 60s Vergangenheitsbewältigung movement and popular programming bringing the issues to the forefront, such as the TV series that popularized the term “Holocaust”.
We can’t rely on a similar stroke of luck to have the Israeli culture just confront itself, too.
From the same article you quoted:
The US and other Western powers lost interest because the US was sympathetic to the Nazis.
The lesson here is that Iran and the Axis of Resistance should be the ones in charge of de-Zionification, rather than Zionist-sympathizers.
While it has a similar incentive to throw valid shade at the US handling this matter, Russia does not have a good track record of upholding Soviet standards at handling matters either, though.
Reconstruction-era Republicans came into power because their whole schtick was anti-racism, and they bungled things anyways.
Reconstruction was defeated by white terrorism of the former slave-owning class, it didn’t just fail on its own for no reason because the Republicans were stupid or because it’s impossible to defeat racism. The former ruling class never had their land seized or their wealth taken or their social networks broken. If the old power structure isn’t dismantled and the old ruling class isn’t imprisoned they’ll just rebuild. That’s why Soviet denazification worked and why US denazification and reconstruction both failed.
Also, you must realize the logical conclusion to your argument is that the Confederacy should have been allowed to exist as part of a two state solution? Like, what exactly would be the difference?
The same issues would be present in Israel. The Radical Republicans did take over all slaveowner land briefly in the aftermath of the war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule. I’m not sure what actual actions you’re proposing to break the social networks of oppressors.
The North had far more people (and this representation) and economic power, even excluding the political power freedmen would give them if they had stuck to their original plan of at least maintaining the integrity of the polls.