Comments on: Variations on the One State Solution http://blog.z-word.com/2008/09/variations-on-the-one-state-solution/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:20:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Michael B http://blog.z-word.com/2008/09/variations-on-the-one-state-solution/#comment-1501 Michael B Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:46:22 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=370#comment-1501 An OSS (one state "solution") has similarities with prominent aspects of OPM (other people's money). It's "interesting" what so many people are willing to do with other people's lives and finances: the risks they're willing to take, the idees fixes and presumption that dominate their themes, the posturings and repeated claims of moral and intellectual seriousness, preachments and inveighments that putatively support those claims, etc., etc. And these same people can't even seriously and rationally demonstrate a two state solution is viable. As such, all this reflects a profound, a deep-seated cancer at the heart of such arguments and at the heart of those transnationalist and other ideologues and bureaucrats who support such idiocy, mendaciousness, vanity and malevolence. An OSS (one state “solution”) has similarities with prominent aspects of OPM (other people’s money). It’s “interesting” what so many people are willing to do with other people’s lives and finances: the risks they’re willing to take, the idees fixes and presumption that dominate their themes, the posturings and repeated claims of moral and intellectual seriousness, preachments and inveighments that putatively support those claims, etc., etc.

And these same people can’t even seriously and rationally demonstrate a two state solution is viable.

As such, all this reflects a profound, a deep-seated cancer at the heart of such arguments and at the heart of those transnationalist and other ideologues and bureaucrats who support such idiocy, mendaciousness, vanity and malevolence.

]]> By: Karl Pfeifer http://blog.z-word.com/2008/09/variations-on-the-one-state-solution/#comment-1500 Karl Pfeifer Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:06:28 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=370#comment-1500 I am always wondering when in Austria some people of the left advocate a one state solution in the Middle East. The same leftwing people are not able to achieve the minority rights for the Slovene minority in Austria. What is common in Israel, road signs in two or even three languages is not everywhere possible where Slovenes live in Austria. This despite the fact, that Austria has signed international agreements, in which it promised to give those rights to the Slovene minority. But that is not all. I cannot understand why some good leftwing people in Austria and in Europe do not try to convince the peoples of former Yugoslavia to live again in one state? After all most of them speak the same language and they lived together almost 50 years in one state. I am always wondering when in Austria some people of the left advocate a one state solution in the Middle East.
The same leftwing people are not able to achieve the minority rights for the Slovene minority in Austria. What is common in Israel, road signs in two or even three languages is not everywhere possible where Slovenes live in Austria. This despite the fact, that Austria has signed international agreements, in which it promised to give those rights to the Slovene minority.
But that is not all. I cannot understand why some good leftwing people in Austria and in Europe do not try to convince the peoples of former Yugoslavia to live again in one state?
After all most of them speak the same language and they lived together almost 50 years in one state.

]]> By: Fabian from Israel http://blog.z-word.com/2008/09/variations-on-the-one-state-solution/#comment-1487 Fabian from Israel Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:05:31 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=370#comment-1487 "She could, I suppose, argue, that it is the possession of ID cards by Israelis identifying them as Jews or Druze or whatever that sustains discrimination in spite of the possession of equal citizenship" Israeli ID cards don't identify you anymore by ethnicity/nationality. My ID card has this ******* where ethnicity/nationality used to be. “She could, I suppose, argue, that it is the possession of ID cards by Israelis identifying them as Jews or Druze or whatever that sustains discrimination in spite of the possession of equal citizenship”

Israeli ID cards don’t identify you anymore by ethnicity/nationality.
My ID card has this ******* where ethnicity/nationality used to be.

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