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October 4, 2005
The Binational Solution
Posted by Dave Blount at October 4, 2005 5:31 PM
If you're Israeli, no you're not paranoid: the world really is out to get you — or at least the United Nations is.
It seems that withdrawing from the Gaza strip didn't accomplish much — other than converting a synagogue into a terrorist weapons museum. Not only did Hamas seem to take the withdrawal as a reward for their terrorism, but the UN has been left still unconvinced that Israel is sufficiently devoted to self-destruction.
John Dugard, the UN's "special rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967," is ready to scrap the two-state solution to the Palestinian problem. In his view there should be only one state — and that state isn't Israel.
"Consideration should be given to the establishment of a binational Palestinian state," Dugard opines. "The demography of the region increasingly points to such an outcome."
"Demography" is a scary word in this context. What it implies is blowing Israel to bits with a Palestinian population bomb. Dugard's hostility to Israel is no secret. He equates it with South Africa under apartheid and evidently wants to see it destroyed. Some of his anti-Israel allegations have been inflammatory to put it mildly. According to the Jerusalem Post, he has "alleged that setters have terrorized Palestinian children, poisoned wells and fields, destroyed crops and stole sheep."
As it's evident that people like Dugard typify the UN bureaucracy, Israel can forget about evenhanded treatment. The Israel = South Africa template spells inevitable doom for the Jewish state if they leave their fate in the hands of Turtle Bay bloviators, who would be mollified by nothing less than the last Israeli jumping into the sea.
This gives Israelis a certain advantage, if they're will to take it: at this point there is no reason to let the Left's condemnations hem in their attempts at self-defense.
Thanks to Byron for the tip.
