THE SINGLE STATE AS A PALESTINIAN RESCUE PROJECT
(PART VII)

 
 

Written by : Asaad Ghanim, a sociologist in Haifa University

 
 

Fifthly, some opponents of the single bi-national state claim that this idea would abort the Palestinian nationalist project, putting in mind that the Palestinian state in West Bank and Gaza Strip is the same mentioned project.
Response to those shall be that the single state is an expansion of the idea of the said project, in a way to include the Palestinians in Israel and to be established over the whole mandate of Palestine…
taking into consideration that the other nationalist groups (the Jews) deserve the same position.
Thus, if the single bi-national state solution, based on the above mentioned factors, is the one capable of solving difficult and complicated problems facing the Palestinian people, we shall not use it then as if we are forced to accept it as a result of the failure of establishing a state in West Bank and Gaza Strip; it shall also be a solution meets our ambitions, and shall regard it as a basis for an operation to rescue the future of Palestine and their political project.
The first who will back this are the Palestinian politicians and cultured elite who see the reality and its complications, and see that the Palestinian state in West Bank and Gaza Strip will not solve the Palestinian crisis, but it may contribute only in solving the problem of the Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza Strip in a way that would lead to an eternal fragmentation of the Palestinian crisis and the Palestinians themselves.