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What Comes Next: Towards a bi-national end-game in Palestine/Israel
Halper, Jeff
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/12/towards-national-palestineisrael/Date Written: 2013-12-03 Publisher: Mondoweiss Year Published: 2013 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20357 Jeff Halper suggests that the best political system to express both the desires of the two national communities of Palestine/Israel for self-determination and of its individual citizens for democracy would seem to be a consociational democracy. Abstract: - Excerpt: Governments manage conflicts, they do not resolve them, and they certainly do not resolve them in accordance with international law, human rights or the desires of the oppressed. If we, the people concerned, want to be actors in determining our own future, we need to begin formulating immediately an end-game to the conflict. Yet Palestine/Israel is too small a unit for resolving all the outstanding issues – refugees, water, security, economic development and self-determination, among others. Even as conflicts embroil our region,we need to envision a just and inclusive Middle East if we are to have a hand in fashioning it. The outlines of a vision and plan presented here are intended to contribute to those most urgent of tasks. Subject Headings |