The above picture is that of Dani Dayan. Dayan is the head of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria. The Yesha Council is an umbrella group which represents all the various settler communities colonizing the West Bank. Yesterday the New York Times published an Op-Ed by Dayan in which he argues that the settlements are not only going to stay, but in fact they are the solution to the Israel Palestine problem. I would urge everyone to read this. It does not matter where you fall on the political spectrum when it comes to the Israel Palestine question because this is the direction that Israel is moving in. I will not spend the time dissecting all of the inaccuracies and racist remarks in Dayan’s article, instead I will leave you with this thought.
Israel will continue its colonization of the West Bank and the Palestinian people. They will block any effort to broker a two state solution. Politicians their will make sure that Israel maintains an ethnic majority over the Palestinian people in the West Bank, effectively turning the West Bank into a series of Bantustans. Settlers will flood into the West Bank at an unprecedented level; stealing land, water, and peoples individual rights. This is what Jimmy Carter warned about in his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid in 2006, for which he was roundly criticized as being an anti-Semite. Well Carters predictions have come true. For all those in Israel and America who have bemoaned the two state solution have no fear, a one state solution will happen. One state in which a racist Jewish majority rules over a Palestinian minority.
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