”Tvåstatslösningen är Israels sista livlina”
google translate translation of the article:
The two state solution; Israels last lifeline
Ship to Gaza's aim is to finally lift the illegal blockade of Gaza, which means that no goods or people have the right to enter or leave Gaza without a permit from Israel. If they succeed, it will obviously lead to some improvements in the Palestinian people, but the main problem persists. Two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will never lead to sustainable peace.The Two-state solution is Israel's last lifeline that allows them to continue to legitimize their crimes against humanity.
The eventual victory for the Ship to Gaza, has already been dedicated to Hamaz by the media. This allows for Israel to effectively discredit the humanitarian assistance operation. That Ship to Gaza carried out their operations to help the population of Gaza should not be up for questioning, but it is. Hamas, which has a stated aim to eradicate the state of Israel will never be able to gain legitimacy. Their existence in Gaza is one, for Israel, grateful tormentor. It means that Israel can claim the Palestine / Israel conflict ever be resolved because there is no partner for peace.
The problem with the Israeli / Palestinian conflict is precisely that it does not exist. There is no Palestine, Israel exists. It is therefore important to stop talking about two states. In practice, however, a two state solution is taking shape, an imposed solution that does not include any compromises by Israel. The solution is a Palestine surrounded by walls and security fencing and such a solution cannot lead to sustainable peace.
The Israeli professor Arnon Soffer was for many years adviser to Ariel Sharon in matters relating to the "demographic threat" that the Palestinians are, illustrates a frightening scenario in an interview with the Jerusalem Post in 2004: "When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it's going to be a human catastrophe. Those people will become even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure at the border will be awful. It's going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day."
The Palestinians' biggest donor is the EU. The Palestinians' most important friends are the Europeans. Ship to Gaza is an example of the tremendous solidarity that exists between both people. The lesson of this is that the Palestinians must change the approach to be able to get freedom. Protesters in several countries in Europe have long chanted "Israel Apartheid" and "Boycott Israel!". But as long as the official fight does not change from a nationalist struggle into a struggle for rights the slogans oaks empty. Israel is an apartheid state only if the Palestinians in the occupied territories fight for a citizenship. If you want to get a boycott against Israel the sruggle must take a new path: the struggle for citizenship.
Ship to Gaza have shown that eight ships with supplies have created more sympathy for the Palestinian cause than Hamaz rockets and International Law heinous suicide bombings could ever do. The Palestinians' struggle is legitimate and it must be fought by legitimate means. You cannot face overwhelming violence by force. If the Palestinians in Europe embrace a new strategy, the Palestinians in the occupied territories will follow.
Professor Edward Said introduced, after the collapse of the Oslo process, "the third way." He meant that the solution for Israelis and Arabs is to create more justice. You have to look forward, not backward. The country can never be as it was before 1967, let alone that it was the 1948. The injustice has been done can not be undone, but more justice could repair it, not more injustice.
Today it lives near one and a half million Arabs in Israel. The day they demand citizenship for the population in the occupied territories and Israel refuses, Israel becomes an apartheid state. Israel can discuss the borders of a future Palestine state, but they can not officially say that they do not want to give Palestinians citizenship. Israel's concern is that the Palestinians give up on having their own state, and instead begin a struggle for rights. Ehud Olmert expressed his concern during his time as Prime Minister when he told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said: "If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished,"
Now people are protesting all over the world against Israel's attacks on Ship to Gaza and demand an independent investigation of the storming of the vessels. But even if the illegal and inhumane blockade is lifted, thanks to the attention Ship to Gaza have achieved and the negative publicity incurred by Israel, the situation for the Palestinians will not improve. The solidarity shown to exist for the Palestinian people must be transformed into constructive action. All of us can agree that all human beings have equal value. Let us stop waving Palestinian flags and instead demand Israeli citizenship to all Palestinians in the occupied territories.
