This next article is the edited-for-typos-and-grammatical mistakes comment I left on this article by TrnsplantdToPal.
I reject Benjamen Netanyahu's/ Israel's plan for a Palestine.
I also reject the current Palestinian plan for a Palestine.
The land lost in 1948 to this day feels to me, and to most Palestinians, as our righteous land. I do not think the Palestinians actually realize that by having their own state in the West Bank or their multi-states on the remaining 22 percent of the historic Palestine is a final substitute to their historic presence on the actual map.
I was watching Netanyahu's speech on CNN sipping on my tea, and between each enragement and the other I would laugh, because frankly no Palestinian should expect any better.
Then I get that SOB chief negotiator on the behalf of the Palestinians (whose long history of allowing the current status quo to happen is well-documented) "discovering" the speech is a leap in the foot steps of the already "turtle-slow" peace process (as he put it together).
I think both sides are simply buying more time, killing more time to buy more time, and each is doing so before the clock ticks its final seconds: When the oblivious Israelis realize they really are not the only ones to exist over the "Land of Israel" once they become a minority among the ever-growing indigenous Palestinian population, and when the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Ltd. realizes you cannot gamble over a burning house.
I liked how Al-Jazeera put Bibi's two "historic"-words together: looked like he was tasting something rather sour. Well he was. Actually the words "Palestinian State" seemed a lot sourer to me coming out his mouth than it did to him. I want a fully functioning state that is created for all of its citizens, that teaches tolerance rather than legalized-racism while allowing me to fully adopt and maintain my own heritage. If that means Israel, then be it, but a new "Israel" not as my oppressor nor as my occupier, a fully democratic nation that extends the "Aliyah" to my fellow Palestinians.
Salam :)
Written in Nazareth
Picture: My first taste in years of the traditionally one-week-per-year organic Mishmish/ Apricot, in Nazareth/ Palestine (currently Israel)
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