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JohnSJ

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5. It is, and they are not for a two state solution, that is their
Mon Jul 19, 2021, 03:53 PM
Jul 2021

double speak

“What BDS Really Wants: A One-state Solution, Minus the Jewish State”
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……”the movements' insistence on a so-called right of return for Palestinian refugees of 1948 and their millions of descendants to Green Line Israel. Given the current hatred between Israelis and Palestinians, it is very likely that any large-scale return of refugees to Israel would bring civil war and enormous bloodshed rather than peace and reconciliation. It would almost certainly turn the Jewish population into a disempowered minority, and is inherently inconsistent with any form of two-state solution.”

“ Further evidence of the BDS movement’s extremism is provided by its regular vilification of moderate Israelis and others who favour mutual compromise. BDS advocates do not target their polemics at hawkish individuals such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or the Greater Israel settler movement (although there is a discrete boycott campaign against settlement products, this is mostly the preserve of Peter Beinart and other left-wing Zionists who support Israel's ongoing existence. The dominant BDS position favors boycotting all Israelis, not the settlements alone). Rather, its principal anger is directed at those Israelis who recognize both Israeli and Palestinian national rights. In his book on BDS, the movement's leader Omar Barghouti slams left-wing Israelis for rejecting only the occupation, rather than Israel’s very existence.

He accuses prominent peace activists, such as Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua and Uri Avnery, of being "racists" because they refused to support an unlimited Palestinian Right of Return, and derides Avnery for wanting to preserve Israel’s “Jewish character.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.haaretz.com/amp/opinion/.premium-what-bds-really-wants-1.5356807

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