The Reemergence of One-Statism

5.4 million Jewish inhabitants—be dissolved or disestablished, at whatever cost that will entail (first to Israel’s Jews and the Jewish people, and then to anyone else)?

With regard to the establishment of the state in 1947 – 1949, a prominent component in the moral equation inevitably will be at what cost this establishment was affected in terms of Palestinian Arab displacement and suffering. A subcomponent will also have to be: Who was to blame for this displacement and suffering, the Zionist movement and the Jews, the Palestinian Arabs themselves, or some combination of the two?

The moral questions, regarding both the rectitude of what happened in 1947 – 1949 and the proposed dissolution of the Jewish state in our time, are complex and ultimately insoluble; the “answers” inevitably will be subjective in the extreme. But the problem of Palestine/Israel and its solution, in present circumstances, is also a practical question. It is a political science question relating to the best possible ordering of human society or two human societies in a given space, taking account of demographics, geography, politics, economic realities, cultural matters, and so on. The question boils down to the best possible concatenation of demography and politics for the peoples living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean.

In broad strokes, there are two possible futures for Israel/ Palestine—as one state or, partitioned, as two states. There could also be a three-way partition, with Israel and two separate Palestinian states—one in the West Bank and another in the Gaza