• @Shyfer
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    7 months ago

    I’m starting to lean towards a one state solution myself. Especially the more I’ve learned about the fact that Christians, Jews, and Muslims all used to get along in the area before the colonization of European and Western Jewish people into the area and displacement of the locals.

    Give them democracy with a strong Constitution where everyone is equal, remove all traces of ethno nationalism or theocracy from the government (except for some public holidays). Integrate the security forces, courts, and other agencies of power together, enforce human rights, try to learn from South Africa, the Troubles in England, and I heard what they did in New Zealand to integrate with the indigenous worked, too. Mix up the schools so the next generation learns to grow up without the hate for the “other” their elders have.

    • @winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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      27 months ago

      At this point, one state solution is the only possible way forward. A two state solution will not work unless conditions radically change. Maybe it never would have worked, maybe the Israeli government only pretended to be willing to go with a two state solution.

      Such a thing is unacceptable to the current Israeli government because it would end their ethnostate but i don’t see an option between that and complete extermination of the Palestinians.

    • @Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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      07 months ago

      the more I’ve learned about the fact that Christians, Jews, and Muslims all used to get along

      The crusades would like a word.

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        47 months ago

        I mean there’s a good 600-700 years of stuff that was happening from the end of the crusades to the late 1940s

        • @Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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          07 months ago

          You mean the time when the area was controlled by the Ottoman Empire, which enforced stability on it?

          I do agree, if we put the whole area under a single Empire’s influence again it would likely be a lot more stable.

          • @Rambi@lemm.ee
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            17 months ago

            I don’t think any sort of one state solution that would exist between the two countries would classify as an empire, and “enforced stability” is a funny way to try to make people not killing each other sound bad. Also if you want to talk about enforced, that word seems perfectly applicable to Israel’s relationship with Palestine now.

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        7 months ago

        @Tavarin the Crusades originated in Europe though. It wasn’t the locals infighting, more like warmongering tourists.

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            7 months ago

            @Tavarin I don’t think it really was. That’s what the Pope wanted people to think at the time, but historians have other explanations.

            The early Crusaders attacked other Christians as well as Jewish settlements and Muslims.

            • @Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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              17 months ago

              During the crusades the region was controlled by the Abbasid Caliphate, and ruled as a Muslim land. The only reason the Christians, Jew, and Muslims “got along” there was due to being under the rule of a single and powerful empire. It wasn’t like the Middle East of the time was separate kingdoms who got along, it was controlled by empires for almost all of its history.

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                7 months ago

                @Tavarin sure. I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the crusades weren’t their fault.