There is a reason the United States frames Palestinian statehood as a "peace process" question rather than a rights question. Rights are binary.
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There is a reason the United States frames Palestinian statehood as a "peace process" question rather than a rights question.
Rights are binary.
Either you have them or you don’t.
Either dispossession is wrong or it isn’t.
Either the forcible removal of a population to make way for another is a crime or it’s a historical fact that must be managed.
A peace process turns a rights question into a negotiation.
It puts the displaced and the displacer across a table as if they are parties with equivalent standing.
It asks the person whose house was taken to negotiate the terms of their own dispossession with the person living in it.
This is not diplomacy.
This is the legal architecture of settler permanence.
And the United States built the same architecture over its own history.
It knows exactly what it is doing.
It has been doing it since 1830.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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