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- Title
Whitewashing Palestine to Eliminate Israel: The Case of the One-State Advocates.
- Authors
Spoerl, Joseph S.
- Abstract
An increasingly fashionable position among self-styled "progressives" is to advocate the "one-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This "solution" envisions a single "secular, liberal, democratic state" encompassing the entire former mandate of Palestine, with a "right of return" for millions Palestinian "refugees." There is, however, a serious blind-spot in the argumentation of the one-state proponents regarding their treatment of Palestinian political culture, both past and present. The one-state proponents systematically whitewash Palestinian political culture by denying, ignoring, or obscuring its Islamic, Islamist, and antisemitic aspects. Their goal is to distract their readers from the illiberal, undemocratic aspects of Palestinian society to keep the focus relentlessly on the real or imagined sins of Israel. They use propaganda as a tool of war to strip Israel of legitimacy and international support and to blind the well-meaning but uninformed readers to the very real risks that Jews would face as a minority living under an Arab and Muslim majority in a re-unified Palestine.
- Subjects
ARAB-Israeli conflict; NEW democracies; POLITICAL culture; ANTISEMITISM; MANDATES (Territories)
- Publication
Jewish Political Studies Review, 2014, Vol 26, Issue 3/4, p73
- ISSN
0792-335X
- Publication type
Article