Tom Friedman of the New York Times is one of my least favorite pundits. He positions himself as “liberal” but in fact he is a jingoistic war-monger, as bad as any neo-conservative. It struck me as a surprise therefore to see this article where essentially he lays out the inevitable movement towards a one-state solution.
“If Palestinians lose their dream to have an independent state, then the only thing that might guarantee for them a dignified life will be asking for the right to live in one state with the Israelis. When this struggle starts, it will find allies among the one million Palestinian Arabs inside Israel. . . . We will say, `Don’t evacuate even a single West Bank settlement. Just give us the vote and let us be part of one community,’ since Israel has made it into one space anyway. This call will find great resonance within the international community.”
Of course, Friedman sees this as a “bad thing.” An of course, it isn’t.
