The ever-shrinking Palestine.
“Extremists want to kill Jews and destruct Israel”. They say.
It has worked as a perfect cover for them to do exactly that in Palestine.
Joseph Goebbels, is believed to have said, I paraphrase: “accuse others of what you do yourselves”.
The catch-22 situation that Israel and its allies find themselves in now is, a two-state solution is no longer viable.
Due to the vast increases in the illegal terrorist settlements inside Palestine (as per UN resolution borders of 1947).
There are around 800,000 Israeli illegal settler terrorists in West Bank, Palestine. To remove a few thousand of these terrorists from Gaza, when Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, was an almost impossible task.
In a two-state solution, Israel could leave these settlers under Palestinian government control, and they could become Palestinian citizens. The Palestinian Authority is presumably OK with this, if “Camp David” negotiations are to be a guide.
But Israel is not. It wants to retain control of these areas, inside a sovereign Palestine, under the two-state solution. Which of course, is a no-go for the Palestinians. No sovereign nation would allow this.
Which is yet another policy position of Israel, that shows it only wants to increase Israeli territory. It doesn’t really want Israelis living in a sovereign Palestine, as some claim.
This, as stated earlier, only leaves one option. A one-state solution. A single state for all, with equal rights for all. But Israel doesn’t want this either.
Which provides its own challenge. Because in this trajectory, as Israel takes more and more land. It’ll become impossible for it not to offer equal rights for all. Otherwise the apartheid label will be impossible to evade, even by its most staunchest allies, namely the USA and UK.
And supporting an unquestionably apartheid state, a full apartheid state which would be impossible to explain away, is very bad for business for free and democratic states.
Israel’s decades of extremist and poor policy decisions, have left it very limited options from here-on, if any at all.
It may like to give the impression that it’s in control of its own destiny, but it actually no longer is.
