After years of soul searching on the question, Abunimah recently abandoned the two state solution in favor of a new idea called the “bi-national state”, which he claimed could be achieved in five years. He lamented the fact that “We can not change U.S. policy fast enough to save the two state solution.” And that no international coalition exists to pressure Israel into accepting it. Abunimah downplayed armed resistance as a means of obtaining Palestinian rights since it only “made colonization costly but has been unable to stop the occupation or reverse it” and called martyrdom operations “illegitimate resistance.” ...
According to census estimates there will be 6.3 million Jews and 8.8 million Palestinians in the Holy Land by 2020, which would force the Zionist entity to act either in terms of ethnic cleansing or in terms of reconciliation....
Although the one state solution was a central plank of the PLO before Oslo, he said, “The PLO never presented anything acceptable to the Israelis.”
He went on to assert that it is not because of the benefits of conquest that the “Israelis” reject the bi-national state, but only through the fear of the Palestinians. ...
Abunimah proposed to allay Zionist fears by promising a “reconciliation commission” similar to the reconciliation commission created in South Africa after the ANC broke the back of the apartheid system in 1994. During the “reconciliation” in South Africa, the criminals behind the racist apartheid system were granted full amnesty for merely admitting whom they had killed and how they had done it. None of the racist South African rulers ever went to jail for their crimes. “Reconcile not revenge,” he said......
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