Posts
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
By Larry Derfner
After Kerry, only BDS may save the two-state solution
Not even Ben-Gurion would be able to rally the political support necessary to displace masses of settlers as long as there is no price to be paid for the occupation. So how much longer can liberal Zionists sit and watch the status quo remain static? If instead of trying to persuade Israel to change, two-state supporters started holding it responsible for refusing to change, it could have a jarring psychological impact on the country and its leaders.
Now that the Kerry peace talks have failed and everyone has given up
hoping that Netanyahu will change, what’s the new plan for ending the
occupation one day? For liberal Zionists – people who want Israel to
become a Jewish state that respects Arabs – it would seem to focus on
Isaac Herzog, head of the Labor Party. Unlike fellow centrist party
leaders Tzipi Livni and Yair Lapid, Herzog hasn’t been in a position of
leadership long enough yet to fail or sell out, so he’s the one. The
hope is that he can get elected in the coming years to head a coalition
government of the center, left, maybe an ultra-Orthodox party, maybe
even an Arab party for once, and do what prime ministers going back to
Yitzhak Rabin 20 years ago tried but were unable to do – reach a peace
deal with the Palestinians.
No comments:
Post a Comment