RE: Should the Palestinians have an independent state?
March 20, 2015 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2015 at 3:30 pm by Regina.)
I think that whole region should just be a secular, religiously neutral state. One state, with no official religion.
It's over-idealistic and it won't happen, but in an ideal world that's the only solution.
I have every sympathy with any innocent civilian, Muslim, Jew or otherwise, who has been caught in the crossfire of the Israel-Palestine war. However, I have no sympathy for the political parties, who are fighting a petty war over a glorified strip of barren desert just because it is labelled "The Holy Land". No. It's pathetic and it has to stop. Just make one secular state which is religiously neutral and give everyone there equal freedom of religion.
In other words, move the fuck into the 21st century like most of the Western world and East Asia have.
It's over-idealistic and it won't happen, but in an ideal world that's the only solution.
I have every sympathy with any innocent civilian, Muslim, Jew or otherwise, who has been caught in the crossfire of the Israel-Palestine war. However, I have no sympathy for the political parties, who are fighting a petty war over a glorified strip of barren desert just because it is labelled "The Holy Land". No. It's pathetic and it has to stop. Just make one secular state which is religiously neutral and give everyone there equal freedom of religion.
In other words, move the fuck into the 21st century like most of the Western world and East Asia have.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
