| ID | 088195 |
| Title Proper | Different histories, different futures |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Pogrund, Benjamin |
| Publication | 2008-09. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Resolving the Palestinian refugee issue has been too long neglected and delayed. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live in degradation and despair, and many live in limbo, awaiting a political solution to problems created more than 60 years ago when Israel came into existence.
What to do? Some put forward South Africa's one-man one-vote one-state as a solution: Israel must disappear, it is argued, to be replaced by a single Jewish-Arab state; all Palestinian refugees must have the right to return to this state if they want to and must have the right to reclaim property they lost in 1948.
This is a siren's voice, sounded only by ignoring realities and brushing aside the fact that South Africa and Israel/Palestine have different histories and different peoples and what has been successful for one doesn't spell success for the other. One size does not fit all. |
| `In' analytical Note | Palestine Israel Journal Vol. 15-16, No. 4-1;2008-09 : p90-95 |
| Journal Source | Palestine Israel Journal Vol. 15-16, No. 4-1;2008-09 : p90-95 |
| Key Words | Different Histories ; Different Futures |