{"id":5636,"date":"2012-02-04T06:07:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T10:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloggie.org\/proggold\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2012-02-04T06:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T10:07:14","slug":"why-a-two-state-solution-will-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/2012\/02\/04\/why-a-two-state-solution-will-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a two state solution will fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/palestina.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/proggold\/palestinian-archipelo.jpg\" width=\"552\" height=\"837\" alt=\"A map of the West Bank Palestinian territories re-imagined as an archipelo\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWhat would the Palestinian controlled territories on the West Bank look like if completely isolated from the rest of the West Bank? <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/21423\">That&#8217;s what Julien Bousac wanted to show with the above map<\/a>, of the Palestinian territories as a group of islands:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMr Boussac took advantage of the resulting archipelago effect \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to use typical tourist maps codes (mainly icons) to sharpen the contrast between the fantasies raised by seemingly paradise-like islands and the Palestinian Territories grim reality.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The map does have a strong vacationy vibe to it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but whether that is because of the archipelago-shaped subject matter, or due to the cheerful colour scheme is a matter for debate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIt shows how much the reality differs from what politicians imagine when they blithly talk about a Palestinian controlled West Bank. It also shows how unrealistic the idea of a two state solution is. The only really coherent piece of land that the Palestinians possess is Gaza and that can be turned into a huge open air prison by the IDF at will. Instead, what needs to happen is to recreate Israel and Palestina as a true democratic state no longer based on Apartheid ideals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zog.org\/2012\/02\/een-beeld-duizend-woorden.html\">Vuijlsteke<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would the Palestinian controlled territories on the West Bank look like if completely isolated from the rest of the West Bank? That&#8217;s what Julien Bousac wanted to show with the above map, of the Palestinian territories as a group of islands: Mr Boussac took advantage of the resulting archipelago effect \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to use typical tourist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel-apartheid-state","category-israelpalestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5637,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions\/5637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}