http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/11/11/one-state-equation-damned-as-pipe-dream/ Thu, 24 May 2012 13:43:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/11/11/one-state-equation-damned-as-pipe-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-532582 epi Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:51:31 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=15729#comment-532582 Did <strong><em>Reich </em></strong>just implicitly make an argument for an ethnically pure Australia ... after all, according to him, multicultural societies are utter disasters. Did Reich just implicitly make an argument for an ethnically pure Australia … after all, according to him, multicultural societies are utter disasters.

]]> http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/11/11/one-state-equation-damned-as-pipe-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-532569 ej Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:31:48 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=15729#comment-532569 The Reich letter is a mess.  The arrogant strand is unwarranted, given both the extreme complexity of the issue, the diversity of historical cases, and Reich's limited historical understanding. Israel itself is a product of the colonial powers re-drawing the boundaries with their post WWI booty to suit their own interests.  A Zionist presence was to be the satrap by which Britain (and France) controlled the Middle East. Little did the Brits know! Israel should never have been created in the first place. In any case, the label 'one state' for the arbitrary arrangements established by the powers is inappropriate. Two states that did emanate from the dead Austro-Hungarian empire, Yugoslavia and Czechoslavakia, were atypically complex, and contemporary astute observers claimed that they were unlikely to survive long.  That they both survived as long as they did is tribute to  counter, centralising forces.  True that Serbia under Milosevic proved oppressive, but a federalist post-Tito Yugoslavia remained conceivable, were it not for the Western powers brilliantly successful ambition to dismember it - fostering of the early secession of Slovenia and Croatia, support of KLA terrorism, etc.  Many nation states, all pragmatically delineated, remain host to 'minorities' - to varying degrees of tolerance, acquiescence, dissatisfaction, rebellion - France, Canada, Spain, Turkey, Iran, Iraq (thanks to the Brits in the first place, and now American destruction of a secular state subsequently), etc. But Israel is the only state that has instituted a permanent occupation of the territory of another population with minimum to no civil rights, while maintaining internally (albeit not itself unique) an apartheid structure to permanently subjugate an ethnic minority. Israel is a special case, and the cessation of the ongoing barbarism that the Western powers and now Israel have created will not depend upon irrelevant lessons from dismembered Yugoslavia but the peculiar conditions pertinent to itself. The Reich letter is a mess.  The arrogant strand is unwarranted, given both the extreme complexity of the issue, the diversity of historical cases, and Reich’s limited historical understanding.
Israel itself is a product of the colonial powers re-drawing the boundaries with their post WWI booty to suit their own interests. 
A Zionist presence was to be the satrap by which Britain (and France) controlled the Middle East. Little did the Brits know!
Israel should never have been created in the first place.
In any case, the label ‘one state’ for the arbitrary arrangements established by the powers is inappropriate.
Two states that did emanate from the dead Austro-Hungarian empire, Yugoslavia and Czechoslavakia, were atypically complex, and contemporary astute observers claimed that they were unlikely to survive long.  That they both survived as long as they did is tribute to  counter, centralising forces.  True that Serbia under Milosevic proved oppressive, but a federalist post-Tito Yugoslavia remained conceivable, were it not for the Western powers brilliantly successful ambition to dismember it – fostering of the early secession of Slovenia and Croatia, support of KLA terrorism, etc. 
Many nation states, all pragmatically delineated, remain host to ‘minorities’ – to varying degrees of tolerance, acquiescence, dissatisfaction, rebellion – France, Canada, Spain, Turkey, Iran, Iraq (thanks to the Brits in the first place, and now American destruction of a secular state subsequently), etc.
But Israel is the only state that has instituted a permanent occupation of the territory of another population with minimum to no civil rights, while maintaining internally (albeit not itself unique) an apartheid structure to permanently subjugate an ethnic minority.
Israel is a special case, and the cessation of the ongoing barbarism that the Western powers and now Israel have created will not depend upon irrelevant lessons from dismembered Yugoslavia but the peculiar conditions pertinent to itself.

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