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Americans, Russians, Germans and Swiss belong first and foremost to a united state and not to a self-ruled territory. When the idea of a federal state is presented the issue of immigration will turn into a rock of division…can millions of Palestinian refugees return to their homeland?
Would millions of Jews settlers flood the land of the Palestinian state?
We still occasionally hear and read the echo of establishing a one state or what is similar to it, the so called ''Federation'' or ''Confederation'' as a solution to the Israeli – Palestinian conflict, even if we believed that this is the demanded solution and what is there now is an Israeli occupation, and the desired solution is putting an end to the occupation on the land.
We say that there are those who talk directly about the one-state solution which supporters are increasing everyday, but others sometimes turn around this idea although, from my point of view, it is the same idea of the one Israeli-Palestinian state.
Views, towards this one state, differ sometimes and agree other times in some matters, but all that does not damage the good will, difference in views is necessary and needed sometimes in order to reach a complete view of the solution, as the writer of this article says, a difference which might put an end to the obstacles that are before the one-state solution.
However, we have the right to record our objection to some of the other side's (the Israeli) views, and it should not expect that we would be silent toward what it suggests, and this surly would enrich the idea.
There are ideas which the Israeli side denies and tries to dismiss, such as the issue of the refugees return and the issue of the right of residence in their occupied land which are legitimate demands for the Palestinian people and for the Palestinian refugees, and there are other rights that some people want to dismiss by some solutions such as extending the so called federation to Jordan and Lebanon, and then the dreams of the writer extends to what is bigger, a regional alliance which includes Turkey and Iran…why not?
This thing raises some doubts about undeclared Israeli targets.
The writer, like other intellectuals who believe in the one-state solution such as Edward Saed, says that before the one-state solution there must be a Palestinian independence, this might be a trickery in order not to call things by their real names.
However, we present here the idea of the writer in the frame of knowing how the other thinks.
The writer is Uri Avnery, a well known Israeli writer and supporter of peace, he writes in several Israeli newspapers and has his own views and opinions, and he also has his questionings which we consider as legitimate as we see that he has the right to question.
He wrote in the website of the Israeli Peace Bloc (Gush Shalom) under the title ''Federation? Why not ?'' :
''These days mark the 5th anniversary of the murder of Yasser Arafat, and bring back to me our last conversation in his Ramallah compound, a few weeks before his death.
It was he who brought up the idea of a threefold federation – Israel, Palestine and Jordan. “And perhaps Lebanon, too.
Why not?” – the same as he did at our very first meeting, in Beirut, July 1982, in the middle of the battle.
He mentioned the term Benelux – the pact between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg that predated the European Union''
To
be continued….
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