My Current Stance on Israel
2025-07
My thinking has evolved a lot over the past six years and I don’t think anyone in Israel-Palestine wants a single state solution. Which means the Good Friday Accords is probably the best model. Two states with open borders and everyone is free to identify themselves as Israeli, Palestinian, or both.1
2019-07
One state with full citizenship for all. Right of Return.2 Significant reparations. A Conciliation Committee.
A South Africa+ plan basically.
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Moreover, like the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the whole situation started with British Imperialism attempting to use ethnic tensions to remain in power (functionally they used Socialist Zionism the same way they used tensions between Kurds, Sunnis, and Shias in Iraq. Revisionist—aka fascist—Zionism is a whole other ball of wax). And then, after WWII, they just gave up and went home leading to disaster not so different than the Partition.
And, thinking along these lines, I believe one way to restart the peace process (after deposing Netanyahu and the other fascists from power) would be to add the UK as a third party who will be responsible for funding reparations and the rebuilding of Palestine. Not only will that make it easier for the Israeli government to make the necessary & just concessions but there’s nothing that brings two people together like a common opponent. If nothing else, Israeli Jews and Palestinians should be able to agree that the British royally fucked up in 1947/48. ↩ - Whether that means actually turning the land back over versus some other form of reparations I’m uncertain of. Should tearing up the communities that have been built on stolen land be the response to the crime of tearing up the communities that were there before the Nakba… ↩