Re: marxism-digest V1 #4854/Palestine

[Hari Kumar <hari.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding the issue of Palestine:
Several correspondents castigate the line of two states - rather than one state 
- as being a "back-slide" [If indeed this is the lien fo the SWP - I remain 
confused what their lien is form the responses to the original question]. I 
hasten to add that I am the last person to support the SWP, being myself a
ML_ist. However, can it not be said that:
i) Having a state of their own - is a better position from which to ultimately 
fight for a single Palestine state that will include the Israelis - the 
Israelis are a fact of life & will not 'disappear'.
ii) The demands that any imperialist state [such as Britain] etc "recognize" a 
single Palestinian state - are simply futile - or deliberately designed to 
supposedly 'expose' the imperialists. But - to what end?
iii) Given the enormous destruction and dispersion of the Palestinians, a state 
- not a piece of land bisected and transected by Zionist colonialists as it is 
presently - must provide a a better half-way house than what the Palestinians 
have now.
All this is a question - ie: to repeat: "Can it not be said?" If not - why not?
Hari Kumar




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