The recent recognitions of a Palestinian state and the October 10 ceasefire have been followed by a flurry of calls to “deradicalize” Palestinian society. The New York Times editorial board went so far as to compare this deradicalization project to the denazification of Germany after the Second World War. These calls have the situation backwards to the point of farce.
  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Okay, I’ll bite. Let’s say that Palestinians also need to be deradicalized. Surely the first step should be to stop the ongoing genocide and apartheid?

    • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zipEnglish
      33·
      22 hours ago

      Sure best thing today (for me) would seem to stop fighting, re-establish pre '67 borders and go from there.

      I don’t know what you understand under ‘end apartheid’ (it’s been thrown around rather cheaply lately) but if you mean a one-state-solution where everybody stops thinking along religious lines: I don’t really think that’s realistic in the short term

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        8 hours ago

        I’m also not sure what I mean by “end apartheid”, because I also don’t know whether it’s realistic in the short term. That would still be the most realistic path to deradicalising Palestine.

        A reasonable first step towards that long term goal would be to end the ongoing genocide. It’s hard to even speculate about possible futures when each day of needless bloodshed makes future peace more difficult.