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Ali Abuhimah proposes an important addition to the three Palestinian demands for boycott, divestment and sanctions (right of return, equal rights in Israel, and an end to Israel's military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem): self-determination.


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One Country Ali Abunimah 9780805086669 Books Reviews

A brilliant book by Ali Abunimah.
A healthy view and prescription how to cure the malady between Jews and Palestinians in the Middle-East. The author's optimism radiates with hope that one day a brave leader will arise, one with the vision like Nelson Mandela's.
Had to get this for a class and really appreciated it. Abunimah's proposal should be the leading solution in the UN right now.
Good read
I read this book after Tsvi Misinai's "Brother Shall Not Lift Sword Against Brother" and before Caroline Glick's "The Israel Solution". Compared particularly to Glick's work, I regard Abunimah's "Bold Proposal" a human, respectful and practicable approach to a One-State-Solution that historically was favored for instance by Judah Magnes, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt and Edward Said, and that is proposed today for instance by Gideon Levy, Muhammed Dahla, Mahmoud Darwish and Judith Butler.

"The oppressed must often show their oppressors a way out of the hole they dug", the native Palestinian author quips hopefully. Contrary to Glick's hawkish right wing solution of unilateral imposition, Abunimah listens to the other side and is well aware that "Israel is an emotional insurance policy against the visceral vulnerability that many Jews still feel ..." He agrees with Glick, however, in "that there is no workable partition that is acceptable to a majority of Israelis and Palestinians." He differs with Glick on the demographical argument. While Glick, in view of converging fertility rates of Jewish against Palestinian wombs, asserts that "the demographic time bomb is a dud", Abunimah cites Israeli experts Arnon Soffer and Sergio Della Pergola who arguably predict that by 2020 non-Jews will form a clear majority between the coast and river Jordan. Whereas Glick finds confirmation in what she calls the "hemorrhage of [Palestinian] emigration", Abunimah cites Yaakov Zur who decried "the appalling rate of ninety-five percent" of [Soviet] Jews going to destinations other than Israel. Abunimah seems mislead when he points to an Ashkenazi chief rabbi seeking converts (and new Israeli immigrants) "among desperately poor Inca tribespeople in the Andes". As far as I know, these Latin Americans were descendants of Jewish fugitives from Spanish Inquisition. Abunimah obviously has a blackout when he, albeit with caveat, inserts, for whatever purpose, that Russian Novosti newspaper "published an article proposing that Arab men should be threatened by castration" [sic] and "cash prizes for young men who voluntarily agree to castration" (pp.95-96). To be sure, Abunimah gives more space to the dementi than to the hoax, but one wonders why he mentioned it at all.
Concerning the problematic right of every Jew to immigrate to Israel, Abunimah is conciliable "The Law of Return should ... be preserved in order to recognize the special connection Jewish communities have with Israeli Jews" (p.119).

Most important is chapter five where Abunimah compares the South-African abolition of apartheid with the possible demise of partition between the coast and Jordan. What is comparable in this comparation surely is the mutual distrust that must be cured at least partially before the removal of walls and fences. For Israelis, the South-African lesson "is to listen to their enemies rather than demonize them", Abunimah says. In his evaluation of "how violence fits" in such long term processes, Abunimah's South Africa chapter seems disturbingly ambiguous, but fortunately in the last chapter he states at least that "there can be no place in this struggle for violence that targets Israeli civilians".

The author's outlook is comprised in two statements from two sides he cites. First, Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey, observed that most Palestinians "view Israel's democracy more positively than any other in the world, followed by America's". Second, Meron Benvenisti wrote in 2003 that binationalism is "apparently inevitable. Israel and the Palestinians are sinking together into the mud of the `one state'."
Finally, a hopeful book about the potential for peace and equality in Israel/Palestine. We have long been bemoaning the lost opportunity for a two state solution; the ever expanding W. Bank settlements have made a two state solution impossible. In this well researched and encouraging book, Ali Abunimah uses the example of the transition from Apartheid South Africa to the new, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic country that it is today. When speaking of a secular, democratic one state solution for Israel/Palestine with equal rights for all, most people shun the idea and state their fear of one group taking revenge on the other. But this is not what happened in S. Africa or in Northern Ireland. In both cases, once the injustices were ended, people set about the business of normalizing relations with their fellow citizens and building a new country that reflects each group's own history, language, customs, and identity. This author believes that the same transformation can take place in this violent, unequal place; based on the long history of warm relations between Palestinians and Jews before the advent of Zionism,I am happy to agree. Highly recommended for anyone who cares deeply about the region, justice, equality, and most of all, and end to violence,
Ali Abuhimah proposes an important addition to the three Palestinian demands for boycott, divestment and sanctions (right of return, equal rights in Israel, and an end to Israel's military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem) self-determination.