Unthinking Majority wrote:How do you create a 1-state democracy with 2 main factions (Jews & Arabs) and then decide on any policy with any kind of consensus without starting endless disagreements? Majority vote won't solve anything, and 50/50 power-sharing will result in endless stalemates. Their ability to work together is terrible and their religions and cultures are vastly different. If the Palestinians wanted to live under Sharia Law and the Jews didn't there's already friction. How do you police 2 different legal system within the same polity?
Yasser Arafat was part of the general Arab pan-nationalist movement, so I think there remains a massive amount of Palestinians who would support secular law.
The Palestinian diaspora also has extensive experience with secular democratic societies, and I think that they would be incredibly useful in the promotion of secular law & order.
And, just as @wat0n said, a lot of Palestinians are enlightened and ready to have a peaceful state like the Jews. Of course, there are very bad actors, and that is why I am open to the idea of one of my coworkers that Hamas & Likkud form a sort of
antagonistic symbiosis.
I think what would surprise people the most is that if the single state was formed today you would probably see by the year 2050 distinct cooperation blocks
between conservative Jewish & Muslim parties and secular, liberal Jewish & Muslim parties.As it stands, I assume you can go to cafes where young Arab & Jewish descent Israelis of different backgrounds sit and chat about philosophy and political and religious issues in jeans & tee shirts with very liberal, progressive perspectives. They also listen to indie rock or EDM from Europe & the Americas (and of course produced at home and throughout Asia, too!)... And, on Day One of the new single state, they would be showing people how it's done.
... And eventually you would literally have a center right party emerge of both Muslims & Jews who do not want to intermarry with each other and who have very different sources of their morality, but are both intent on having a secular state where abortion and gay marriage are illegal, and they are in each other's X feeds bitching about the liberal party and sharing subtitled Jordan Peterson videos.
Extreme ethnocentric Jewish & Muslim groups that want prolonged conflict and total separation would be politically ineffective before too long, and they would be kept to their own little self-made ghettos... But we'd have a combination of Jewish & Arab cops inside these ghettos insuring that they aren't forcing barbaric practices on youths that violate their basic rights, and we'd ensure they are receiving an education that does not make it impossible for them to integrate into the society if they so choose to one day.
I know it can work, and that the path toward this conclusion would be
easier than continued conflict.