Re: British SWP shift to two-state position on Palestine

["Richard Fidler" <rfidler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Johannes:

>> To demand an Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories does not
make any statement about what should happen in the state of Israel itself.
<<

Correct. Not to mention that the AWL contradicts itself in its own
statement. On the one hand it claims that

>> "Two nations, two states", or an independent Palestinian state alongside
Israel, follows immediately [logically] from "Israel out of the occupied
territories". <<

On the other hand, it says the SWP position

>> ... indicates that the acceptable outcomes from Israeli withdrawal from
the Occupied Territories are either an independent Palestinian state
alongside Israel, or a single democratic secular state merging both nations,
Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Arab. <<

An independent Palestinian state (alongside Israel) and a single democratic
secular state are obviously distinctly different options. In their sectarian
enthusiasm, the AWL is trying to have it both ways.

Richard Fidler




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