Abdul El-Sayed on Palestinian and Jewish Israeli self-determination
por Jolyon: Abdul El-Sayed
The future of Palestinians and Jewish Israelis, per Abdul El-Sayed, belongs to Palestinians and Jewish Israelis. That's the principle he lays out: equal rights to peace, dignity and self-determination for both peoples, with free Palestinians and free Jewish Israelis left to work through the contradictions of their own situation. He doesn't name a preferred outcome. Two states, one state, land for all, or something else entirely, he says as a U.S. policymaker he'd be fine with any of it, because the process matters more than the result. The trouble, in his read, is hubris: outsiders assuming they get to dictate what happens instead of building conditions where the discussion can actually happen. And there's a power imbalance underneath all of it. Israel is a state that exists. There is no Palestinian state. Writer: Val
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that. So let's start from a philosophical standpoint of where, what ought to be. I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis. I believe that it is up to a free Palestinian people and free Jewish Israeli people to decide how to maneuver the inconsistencies of that. Whether that's a two-state solution or a one-state solution or land for all, as you had a discussion about on your show, or a 23-state solution. Me, as a U.S. policymaker, I would be fine with any of those. It's about the process, not the outcome. And I think the problem right now is ultimately we've often had too much hubris to think that we get to dictate what happens rather than trying to enable the circumstances to allow for that discussion to happen. And the problem that I have is there is a deep power imbalance here. Israel is a state that actually exists. There is no Palestinian state.
