the icj opinion is out

[toastykitten]

 https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/186/186-20240719-adv-01-00-en.pdf

TLDR: Israel's presence in Palestinian occupied territories is illegal and should end. 

Comments

[maeve66]

This is so good (and I read the whole article; thanks for attaching it)... but no US administration I can imagine will do anything to respect that ruling. The biggest rogue state in the world ignoring the International Court of Justice is the US. I hope it moves some other countries along to recognition of Palestine.

Is this the worst can of worms in the world to open, here? I am curious what you think of two-state versus one democratic secular state? A long, long time ago (like, when I was fourteen or so?) I read a book called The Other Israel that was a collection of essays by Israeli and Palestinian revolutionary marxists talking about, among other things, a democratic (or, you know, socialist) secular state solution. I think it was published in 1972, edited by Arie Bober, and it's out of print, now. I just found it online in a very web 1.0 style on the site called marxists.org ...

[toastykitten]

I honestly think a one democratic secular state is the way it's going to eventually go; however, given the cultural prejudice that has been baked into Israeli society against Palestinians...it's going to be a bumpy and long road to get there. There's a lot of cultural conditioning that has to be unlearned.