When I ask this question, I really would like hopeful and positive answers. I know this is some doomerist bullshit but I'm in a bad mood and I can't stop thinking about it. The Israeli state is too militarily and diplomatically superior to Palestine for the Palestinian people to ever regain territorial sovereignty. The Arab nations that once guaranteed Palestine and fought for its independence have either given up or fallen to pieces. All of the world's major powers -the US, the EU, China, Russia, NATO- are allied with or maintain close relations with Israel. So what route remains for Palestinian sovereignty? While there is a Palestinian state, a state without complete control of its land cannot enforce its own laws, and if a state cannot enforce its laws then it is not a state at all. In its current status, Israel uses the current Palestinian state as an excuse, saying that it is accomplishing its end of the 2 state solution. However, everyone knows that the Israeli government has sole control over the land supposedly in the sole hands of the Palestinian state, and the only reason it doesn't annex the land formally is because that would challenge the ethnic dominance of the Jewish people in the Israeli state. All this diplomatic bullshit with raising a flag at the UN and being designated a "non-member observer state" is just an excuse for the crimes the state of Israel is committing against the Palestinian people. Note that I am referring to the State of Israel rather than Israelis themselves. It is disingenuous to say that the nation of Israel is unilaterally opposed to the rights of the nation of Palestine, however, a state is not a nation. People united by a singular identity are a nation, and a state is a military structure which enforces rules in the name of that identity. As such, the Palestinian nation will never go away, but its state hardly exists at all. At any moment the Israeli state could annex Gaza and the West Bank, and ultimately no one could or would do anything about it. In fact, I'm sure that stocks in the GCC would rise dramatically because of all the new luxury condo development opportunities. Every day the world adjusts more to a stateless Palestine, and a nation of people trapped in their own land by a colonial state whose very structure is threatened by the native peoples' existence. I can't help but recognize that the Israeli state won long ago, and that there is no longer a Palestine to free while the Israeli state exists. Please tell me I'm wrong.
This is what's so frustrating to me. Most Jewish Israelis support a two state solution specifically because it allows them to keep their ethnostate. The US, EU and UN also support this. In fact, as far as I can find one of the only countries to call out the two state solution as a total farce is Eritrea in an address at the UN.
Yup, the status quo allows Israel to have the best of both worlds. It's fascinating that Israel is a 19th century ethnostate holdover conception of what a "nation" is, and for a "modern state" it's strikingly out of tune with modern conceptions of nationalism. Like despite what some reactionaries want to claim, "Americanness," "Frenchness," "Britishness," etc are no longer based on race, and it's widely understand that one can be like, Asian and French or Indian and American or whatever. But a non-Jewish Israeli?! The very foundations of the state are threatened! We cannot allow this!!!
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19th century nationalism had a resurgence leading up to WWII IIRC
It's impossible to call this out either because of the thing we all know. The elephant in the room is that you can't critique Israel without being called antisemitic, and you can't bring up the fact that people will call you antisemitic without them calling you antisemitic but trying to make an excuse. Even if you qualify all of your statements with the fact that the Shoah was one of the most horrifying atrocities in human history, you cannot make any civil critique of Israel without someone saying you're doing an "I'm not racist but..." argument. It's almost as if the Global North uses Israel's identity as the Jewish nation to deflect the centuries of abuse Western countries wrought upon the Jewish people, because now they support the Jews because they support Israel.
Even all of that comes off antisemitic, or could be framed as such.
Marxist Israel or Bust
All support for Maki, the Israeli communist party primarily composed of far-left Jews and Arabs, self described as an anti-Zionist party within the Israeli state. :sankara-salute:
How strong in numbers and power is it? The material reality is that the "Occupied Territories" are day-to-day controlled not by Israel, which does control exchange (together with Egypt etc.) tightly and bombs stuff outside of day-to-day control.
Extremely small. I think they've got like two seats in the Knesset.