For any two state solution to have any meaning or justice, the majority of 600,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank will have to be relocated to Israel. But they will fiercely resist any such action. It’s a deeply reactionary and racist movement. How could it be anything else? Not surprisingly, settlers who have been violently attacking Palestinians in the West Bank with near impunity even before the recent Hamas attack on innocent Israelis, have intensified those attacks in recent weeks.
At some point this deeply reactionary and racist movement will have to be confronted. Otherwise a two state solution is dead on arrival. No Palestinian leader, even a collaborationist one, would sell such a solution that gives legitimacy and legality to the extensive usurpation of land on the West Bank by Israeli settlers.
Written by
Sam Webb
I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
