Israel Is Destroying Itself With Its Settlement Policy

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🗓️ 7 August 2015

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Patriacide. Nationcide. Whatever you want to call it, that is what Israel is doing with its settlement policy: it is killing itself. If ever greater numbers of Jewish settlers are installed on land regarded by Palestinians as the basis for a state of their own, the possibility of a two-state solution grows ever more remote. Yet the single state alternative, involving annexation of the West Bank, would result in a country where Arabs vastly outnumber Jews and then you won’t have a one-state or a two-state solution: you’ll have a no-state solution. For those who love Israel and wish to preserve a democratic Jewish homeland, as much as for those who hate it, the settlements must stop. That’s what many left-wing Israelis and their friends say. But defenders of the settlements see things very differently. The two-state solution has long been a dead letter in their view: why stop building settlements in the name of a peace plan that is frankly unattainable? Whatever the eventual solution – it could even be a... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.0	Good evening everybody. I'm Tim Franks I'm chairing the debate. Wonderful to see the
1:17.7	auditorium packed. I have to say that when I was sent through the final wording for this debate I thought how appropriate it was not just because it was
1:32.0	interestingly worded but because it was all in capitals.
1:37.0	Israel is destroying itself with its settlement policy if settlement expansion
1:44.4	continues Israel will have no future. I know from my three and a half years
1:50.4	reporting from the region and the abuse I'm still getting from my
1:55.1	broadcasting that there are few subjects which lend themselves to such
2:00.4	shouty certainty and loudly dogmatic, diametric opposition as Israel and the
2:09.6	Palestinians. And I dare say a few of you will have come here tonight already stirred by this provocatively
2:19.7	titled motion.
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