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Opinion | Factionalists, haven't you forgotten someone? | Israel Hayom

2023-06-06T21:21:08.343Z

Highlights: Until recently, the two-state solution was a code name at the heart of the political debate in Israel between right and left. The idea of separation to Judea and Israel has hitherto been on the extreme and sleepwalking fringes. In recent months it has slowly seeped all the way to the mainstream of the protest movement and its affiliates. Will they associate them with the racist, parasitic and blood-sucking State of Judea? Or will they accept them, or will they be sent to huddle alongside other primitives?


Have the flag bearers of the new liberal state forgotten that Arabs also live in the little patch of God they want to establish, or is it hidden racism that sees them as air?


Until recently, the two-state solution was a code name at the heart of the political debate in Israel between right and left.

The division was clear and simple, as was the concept held by each of the camps: on the left they advocated that if we only gave the Palestinians a state of their own and cleansed its territory of Jews, a wolf would live with a sheep between the Jordan River and the sea. The right claimed that this was a disaster that would threaten the peace of the State of Israel and its ability to survive in the region, for security, religious and political reasons.

With the collapse of the idea of two nation-states in public opinion – in light of the failure to promote leftist ideology in the Oslo Accords and the Disengagement, and even more so in light of the current rift between the Jewish citizens of the state – the two-state idea took shape and took on a new one, one that concerns the division of the land among the Jews themselves.

No longer a "Palestinian state - yes or no?" but a separation between the State of Israel and a new state: the State of Judea. The idea of separation to Judea and Israel has hitherto been on the extreme and sleepwalking fringes, but in recent months it has slowly seeped all the way to the mainstream of the protest movement and its affiliates.

Among other things, the Kan Broadcasting Corporation conducted a survey on the matter and devoted a long broadcast time to clarifying the idea; The Marker commentator was inspired by the civil wars in Yugoslavia and the United States and wondered if the time had come to examine alternatives to the current Israeli existence. And Ben Caspit laid out his doctrine on the subject a few days after the elections and in light of the results, under the headline: "There may be no escape from a split between conservatives and liberals."

The articles and tweets that actually suggest the division of the Jewish people in its land are accompanied by a mysterious mystery: almost none of the supporters of splitting the nation and the state in two relate to another public that nevertheless lives in the Jewish state - the Arab public. It's a real mystery.

Have the flagbearers of the new liberal state forgotten that Arabs also live in the small patch of God they want to establish – or is it hidden racism, which sees them, the Circassians, Druze and Bedouins carrying blue ID cards as an air whose opinions should not be taken into account, and which certainly should not be added to the liberal and free paradise they so desire?

In any case, it is clear that the question of the Arabs and other Israeli minorities presents them with a dilemma: Will they associate them with the racist, parasitic and blood-sucking State of Judea and declare in effect that they have always regarded the minorities in whose name they are currently fighting in the streets as belonging to those primitive citizens from whom they must be cut off?

Or will they join the minorities in their imaginary liberal state, and declare with a committee that they have no real problem with conservatism and with ugly phenomena that characterize parts of Israel's minorities – including extreme homophobia, polygamy and problematic treatment of women?

Will they embrace non-Jewish minorities who live according to their conscience, which is as far from liberal values as Bnei Brak is from Tel Aviv, and reject Jews living the same way with the other? And if the minorities want them to live alongside the enlightened secular Israelis, will they accept them, or will they be sent to huddle alongside other primitives?

The factions have the solutions.

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Source: israelhayom

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