John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY YUMNA PATEL IN MONDOWEISS
“Israel’s ‘Apartheid Road’ brings renewed home demolitions, land confiscations for Palestinian town”
The Apartheid Highway [a new, Israeli-built highway on Palestinian land in the West Bank with two sets of lanes divided by a tall concrete wall topped with a tall metal fence] is just plain ugly, both in sheer physical appearance and in ethical/moral meaning.
Yet, what could be a more fitting symbol for Israel and its future than this bizarre road?
You know, there really are only a few possible outcomes for the social/political/humanitarian horror Israel has itself created.
One, a single state.
Two, two states.
Three, all of the Palestinians are somehow made to go away.
Four, apartheid.
Israel has itself ruled out the first two of these.
The third is not realistically possible, although a good many prominent Israelis have advocated for it. The world has accepted a great deal of violent lawlessness from Israel, but ethnic cleansing on the scale of millions of souls just will not be tolerated.
Anyway, there is no place for millions to go. No state or states would accept such an immense burden. Just listen to the cacophony about refugees and migrants from so many lands today.
Which leaves the fourth, apartheid, and it is what Israel is vigorously working towards, without ever announcing the fact or using the word.
