(Jewish Political Studies Review) Joseph S. Spoerl - An increasingly fashionable position is to advocate the "one-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, envisioning a single "secular, liberal, democratic state" encompassing the entire former Mandate of Palestine, with a "right of return" for millions of Palestinian "refugees." There is, however, a serious blind-spot in the argument. The one-state proponents systematically whitewash Palestinian political culture by denying, ignoring, or obscuring its Islamic, Islamist, and anti-Semitic aspects to distract their readers from the illiberal, undemocratic aspects of Palestinian society. They blind well-meaning but uninformed readers to the very real risks that Jews would face as a minority living under an Arab and Muslim majority in a re-unified Palestine. The writer is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
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