" یک#کشورفلسطین_دیگرامکان_پذیر نیست 
"#APalestinianStateIsNoLongerPossible
.و#خواستارآن_شدن یک #حرکت#سیاسی#ایمن_است
 and #calling_for_it_is_a_safe_political_move.
برنی سندرز آن را می داند ، دوستان خیابان جی می دانند ، و همه افراد به اصطلاح مترقی نیز آن را می دانند."
Bernie Sanders knows it, the folks at J Street know it, and all other so-called progressives know it too."
میکو پلد ، اسرائیلی
Miko Peled, Israeli
تهیه و ترجمه یک پاراگراف از: پیمان پایدار

https://www.mintpressnews.com/j-street-conference-progressive-pols-bow-israel-while-preaching-peace/262608/?fbclid=IwAR33TeIL4MBp_bZnY0O_64AaEf8QzfJX7DVQXL7AIq-9ynUm1Ju8UoLEvmI

October 30th, 2019

By Miko Peled

My father, the late IDF general Matti Peled, called for a two-state solution in 1967, and as is stated in my book, The General’s Son, Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, he continued to campaign for this “solution”  until the day he died. It may have been a revolutionary idea then, especially coming from a retired IDF general. Some would even call it progressive, though I personally would not go that far. It presented a path for Israel to gain legitimacy for its 1948 conquest of Palestine while placating the Palestinian people by giving them a small, powerless state that would allow them to exercise their right to self-determination. 

Two decades later, when it was clear that Israel would never allow this to happen, my father called for the U.S. to halt its financial and military aid to Israel. By 1992, he called for sanctions against Israel. So when Bernie Sanders and other so-called progressives like J Street talk about a two-state solution and the possibility of using aid to pressure Israel, they are decades late and billions of dollars short. Without full support for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement, BDS for short, no progress can be achieved for Palestinian rights...

However, we mustn’t get ahead of ourselves. One has to ask, where were these progressives when the possibility of a two-state solution was feasible? This is not to say it was a just or good solution, for it did legitimize the Zionist crimes of 1948 and earlier. Setting that aside for a moment, where were these so-called progressives when the possibility of an independent Palestine emerging in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip was a real possibility? They were nowhere to be found. 

While the official line of consecutive U.S. administrations was that UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 should be the basis of a peace agreement, neither the various administrations or other American politicians outside of the administration did a single thing to push this idea forward.

Now that is it too late, and it is clear that Israel never intended to allow the Palestinian right to self-determination to materialize, and now that we know that the “peace process” concocted by the Rabin-Peres duo was nothing more than a charade, the Bernie Sanders and J Street liberals decided to make a “bold” statement out of an old, outdated idea. But there is nothing bold about their support for Israel. There is nothing progressive about waiting five decades to support an idea that has no chance of becoming reality...