The Online One State Bibliography in English website - http://www.onestate.org - that presents articles and essays discussing the idea of one state in Israel/Palestine (both for and against) has been updated with new material. New additions include:
I. Pro-Unity One State Articles (direct page: http://oss.internetactivist.org/PUOSA.html)
- Abunimah, Ali "Democracy: An existential threat?" Electronic Intifada
- Amayreh, Khaled "Embracing the one-state solution" Al Ahram
- Christison, Kathleen "One and Two State Solutions: The Myth of International Consensus" CounterPunch
- Cook, Jonathan "Two-State Dreamers" AntiWar.Com
- Hasan, Rumy "Just one state" Al Ahram
- Hishmeh, George S. "Back to square one" Gulf News
- Holachek, Alex "Author proposes one-state solution in Palestine" Wesleyan Argus
- Hull, Crispin "One-state solution to end Israel-Palestine conflict" Canberra Times
- Imadudeen, Ismail "Could One State Phenomenon be the Solution?" American Chronicle
- Khalidi, Ahmad Samih "Thanks, but no thanks" Guardian, 13 December 2007
- Khouri, Rami G. "Dissolve the Palestinian Authority" Daily Star (Lebanon)
- Klein, Shimon Z. "The Binational State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" Blogger News Network
- Lieberman, Dan "The Harsh Reality Of The Middle East Conflict" Counter Currents
- Mundow, Anna "Language and conflict: Interview With Saree Makdisi" Boston Globe
- Peled, Miko "Transforming Israel" Electronic Intifada, 25 March 2008
- Resmann, Nick and Santana, Maaika "Remembrance of the Naqba: Interview with Tal Dor and Nidal al-Azza" IndyMedia - Belgium
- Stern, Yoav "Adalah center says it may seek supranational regime in 'all historic Palestine'" Haaretz
- Walker, Terry "Wrestling with Jewishness" Tikkun
- Weekes, Anna "Interview with single-state activist Dr. Haider Eid" Electronic Intifada
II. Anti-Unity Ethnic Separatist Articles (direct page: http://oss.internetactivist.org/AUESA.html)
- Amdur, Reuel S. "Finklestein: Middle East powder keg ready to blow" Arab American News
- Chumbley, Lucy "Ecumenical conference in Washington D.C. seeks path to 'peace in Jerusalem'" Episcopal News Service
- Harris, Maurice "A place to call home" Register-Guard
- Isseroff, Ami "The rush to sell out Palestine and peace" MidEastWeb
- JPost Staff "Ben-Eliezer warns of bi-national state" Jerusalem Post
- Karsh, Efraim "1948, Israel, and the Palestinians: Annotated Text" Commentary Magazine
- Mendes, Philip "One State, No Solution" NewMatilda.Com
- Pinkas, Alon "Memo to the President - January 2009: Is there still a Two-State solution?" Jerusalem Post
- Rubin, Trudy "The looming threat to Israel lies within" Philadelphia Inquirer
- Warschawski, Michael "The One State Solution and Irreversibility" Alternative Information Center
III. Other Related Articles (direct page: http://oss.internetactivist.org/ORA.html)
- Abunimah, Ali "Anti-Arab racism and incitement in Israel" Electronic Intifada
- Boudreaux, Richard and Khalil, Ashraf "For some Palestinians, one state with Israel is better than none" Los Angeles Times
- Seale, Patrick "Death of the Two-State Solution" PatrickSeale.Com
- Slackman, Michael "Arab Leaders Say the Two-State Proposal Is in Peril" New York Times
- Susser, Leslie "One Land: How Many States?" The Jerusalem Report
- Whitbeck, John V. "If Kosovo, Why Not Palestine?" Media Monitors
If you know of other articles that should be included but are not, please feel free to forward them to us via http://books.dreambook.com/colsol/oss.sign.html or reply to this message.
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Great Son of Greatest Arab Mother
So much has been written about the Arab-Israel conflicts. It is almost universally accepted that this small piece of the Land on the meeting point of the two continents of Asia and Africa is the greatest flash-point in the world- the most violent, volatile and dangerous one. While at the basic level, it is a dispute between Israel and Palestinians, on a broader level it can be extended and linked to the so-called “Clash of the Civilizations” as enunciated by Huntington.
The current ongoing violence is only one more example in this long and uninterrupted series of violence, death and destruction. While it is very difficult for any definite and final stating of facts in any matter related with the Palestine-Israel conflicts because of the distortion of facts, figures and the accompanied truth in the process, what is generally accepted is that this time it was Israel which attacked the Gaza strip which has been given to the Palestinian population as a result of the Oslo agreements. It is also being believed that the Israeli army and Air force have made many brutal and damaging attacks on the Palestinian civilian population in this region in which many innocent people including even hapless women and children have lost their lives or have been severely injured. Israel, on the other hand, blames the Palestinians, particularly the Hamas for propagating incessant violence and openly proclaims that whatever Israel is doing is only in its self-defence.
As far as the world reaction is concerned, there is a extreme polarization between the two groups. There is no doubt that both Israel and Palestine have their own traditional friends and foes. Then there are others who are seen shifting their positions as per the context and circumstances. USA is the staunchest Israeli ally and the Arab world is generally pro-Palestine. As far as their condemning or protecting either of these two sides is concerned, it generally depends on the siding with two parties.
If one talks to a Palestinian, one will come to believe that there is no one worse than an Israeli in this world. He will present himself as the epitome of all the virtues and pious intentions and will call Israelis with all sorts of names. To them, the entire burden of the conflict will shift on Israel for having committed all sorts of atrocities on Palestine and its people, including taking away their land and displacing them from their beloved homeland. If, at all, Palestine is resorting to any violence, it is only as a last resort- simply to save itself. An Israeli’s opinion will be exactly the same. For him, a Palestinian will be a cheater, a thief, a mercenary, a hateful creature, a most unscrupulous person, a thug, a rogue and a spiteful chap. Again, he will present himself as a gentle, sublime, decent, ethical, aesthetic, simple and law-abiding person who has been condemned, persecuted, prosecuted and harmed for centuries.
So, which of these two groups is true- the Israeli or the Palestinians? To me it seems that the truth, like so many such cases, lies somewhere in between. In fact a general overview of the situation would let people understand that the real guilt lies in the extraneous situations and the circumstances and not with these two affected parties. While this does not mean that both these parties are holier-than-thou or have nothing to do with the hateful violence but it can be easily said that much more than their fault, it is the fault of the third parties, the external ones which has today resulted in such an anomalous and difficult situation having crept in where there is one baby with two fathers. The only practical and feasible solution is a two-nation solution, as and when it gets mutually accepted and practically implemented. It might be in the form of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip for Palestinians and the rest to Israel or in any other suitable form.
But why the conflict? The conflict arises from competing Jewish and Arab national aspirations for the same region which one of them calls and believes to be Palestine (a the land they had been living for the last thousand years or so) and the other as Israel (the mythical promised homeland of the world-wide Jews). And the real culprit are the powerful and self-seeking European Nations, Britain being in lead, who left behind so many artificial and non-ending disputes all over the places they ruled and where they created so many irregular, unwarranted and illogical barriers and boundaries that suited them. In this particular case, the British played simultaneously with these two Nationalities making conflicting promises to both in the forms of the Hussein-McMahon correspondence and the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. It was only because of this two-mouthed British policy that tensions between Arab and Jewish groups in the region erupted into physical violence resulting in so many riots. And when the British thought that the heat being generated out of this was too much for it to handle, it left the place one fine morning leaving the place to simmer and burn with intermittent volcanic eruptions since then.
In 1947, the U.N. did approve the partition of the land but the Arabs of that time underestimated Israelis resulting in the ill-fated Arab-Israel war of 1948.
Without going into any further history, I would end this Article by saying that the Arab-Israel conflict is an extremely sad, ill fated and misfortunate saga of blood and gory. Thousands of innocent people on both the sides have died, giving rise to so many heroes and villains on both sides of border.
But who is the real enemy- once it was Britain and today, it is both of them who are still behaving like the illegitimate fratricidal children of Britain. And what is the way out? The only way out is peaceful, mutual coexistence, without going into the detailed analysis of who did what and who is responsible for what putrid acts. Because getting down to that is like opening a Pandora’s box where there would be no ending to accusations and counter-accusations. So, peace would reign in this region, as and when it finally does, only when they both realize that they don’t have the capacity to exterminate the other and will go on to exist in each-other’s neighbourhood. So why not say enough is enough and accept the other side, even with complete distaste.
Dr Nutan Thakur,
Editor,
Nutan Satta Pravah,
Lucknow
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