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Friday, September 25, 2009

Principles

I am not interested in a "solution" to the question of Palestine which does not address the rampant discrimination practiced by the state of Israel against 1.2 million of its own citizens (just the most recent of countless examples). Any resolution of this conflict, in order to be morally just and plausibly long lasting, must produce real democratic reform within Israel. Whether that is more likely to come in the form of one state or two is really a reflection of the willingness of a supposedly progressive democracy to look at its own behavior, see it for what it is, and change it for the better.

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