Siyabonga Hadebe - Palestine: why the two-state solution is problematic
A Palestinian demonstrator runs as he carries tyres during a protest over tension in Jerusalem and Israel-Gaza conflict escalation, near Israel’s Hawara checkpoint near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.The concept of a ‘two-state solution’ has been proposed as a means to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The proposal for creating Jewish and Arab states in the British Mandate of Palestine can be traced back to the Peel Commission report of 1937.
Zionism’s claim to the land of Israel is or was premised on four elements, that is, God promised the land to the patriarch Abraham; the Jewish people settled and developed the land; the international community granted political sovereignty in Palestine to the Jewish people; and the territory was captured in defensive wars. Nevertheless, Herzl’s work laid the foundation for the Zionist movement.
The West’s support for the Zionist agenda and the formation of Israel has been a source of contention in the region. It is also important to recognise that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not solely a product of the Hamas-Israel dynamic. Firstly, the division of territory between Israelis and Palestinians, with Israel retaining most of the land and resources, perpetuates inequality. If likened to the settlement after apartheid, whites would keep the land and the economy while the black population stayed in Qwaqwa and Alexandra. Understandably, organisations such as Afriforum and the DA would be content with such.
At first, diverse places such as Uganda, Madagascar, Ethiopia and Argentina were considered possible places for the Jewish homeland. Within the Soviet Union, there were also considerations for an ersatz Zion for Soviet Jews, but this would go against state policy of atheism. He adds that “the Gypsy communities are living laboratories for theories of national identity formation”.
The Gypsy victims of the Nazi genocide are estimated at 200,000 to 500,000 but got no recognition. In Switzerland, they faced “cultural genocide”, where children were forcibly taken from their families, like in Australia. On the positive side, the Gypsy discourse persuaded the Indian government to acknowledge the Gypsy people’s Indian origins and the UN to grant them permanent consultative status.
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