[Marxism] Israel - Palestine: two peoples one state

[Nasir Khan <naskha3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Israel/Palestine: Two Peoples One State

By Keith Harvey | Permanent Revolution,  June  6, 2009

The brutal invasion of Gaza by Israel’s armed forces and the rise of
the far right in the Israeli elections that followed has appalled
people all over the world. It has also hammered a further nail in the
coffin of the idea that a Palestinian state can live in peace
alongside the Zionist state. Keith Harvey strips away the last shreds
of credibility from the “two-state solution”…

Israel is a state based on ethnic cleansing. The foundation of the
state in 1948 was prepared by the bloody, forcible transfer of
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their town and villages.
Led by David Ben-Gurion, this ethnic cleansing was planned in every
detail while the British prepared to hand its Palestinian mandate to a
United Nations (UN) still deliberating how to divide the country
between the indigenous population and its new colonists.

In 1947, while still under the British mandate rule, Palestine had a
population of 1.29 million Arab Palestinians and 608,000 Jews,
one-third of whom had arrived after the war. Jews owned a mere 6% of
the land. The UN eventually proposed to give them 55%; Jews were to
get the “more economically developed part of the country” according to
the UNSCOP resolution that recommended partition. 1 In the Jewish
state nearly half the population would be Arabs, compared to less than
2% of Jews in the Arab state.

Full article: 
http://sudhan.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/israelpalestine-two-peoples-one-state/

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