Bernie Sanders 2020

Opposing antisemitism is a core value of progressivism. So it's very troubling to me that we are also seeing accusations of antisemitism used as a cynical political weapon against progressives. One of the most dangerous things Trump has done is to divide Americans by using false allegations of antisemitism, mostly regarding the US-Israel relationship. We should be very clear that it is not antisemitic to criticize the policies of the Israeli government.

I see a Palestinian people yearning to make their contribution--and with so much to offer--yet crushed underneath a military occupation now over a half-century old, creating a daily reality of pain, humiliation, and resentment.

Ending that occupation and enabling the Palestinians to have self-determination in an independent, democratic, economically viable state of their own is in the best interests of the United States, Israel, the Palestinians, and the region.

oppressed people around the world, including Palestinians;

These people fail to understand that the conflict between the Zionists and the Palestinians will never be resolved until the former owns its obligations to the latter, their Right of Return. If there is one thing these "progressives" should understand it is this, the Palestinians will never relinquish this right of theirs.

What he's not doing is what almost all Democrats and Republicans uniformly do, which is to hold Israel's rights far above the occupied Palestinians'.

I find it hard to sympathize with the State of Israel at all I must confess;

However, if those who were displaced can return, of necessity they will be taking back their lands which will affect the ones who live on that land now. Moreover, it will increase the size of non-Jews which most Israelis view as a natural threat to their self determination in the sense they will have more a voting block if they are allowed to vote in a free democracy. I can't see it happening in the real world.

Yeah, and this endless circle of strife is only going to get much worse what with the Trump administration's change of US of policy regarding the conflict.

How dare those uppity Jews want to peacefully live in their own homeland

You're right. Israel is not going to allow themselves to be destroyed.

How dare those uppity Palestinians and Arabs want to live in their own homeland.

Which is why there isn't going to be a solution until some of those on the hard line right in Israel start to consider Palestinians and Arabs are humans beings with as much as rights to live free in their homeland as they themselves are.

“The two state solution was pushed on the Palestinians as a compromise after having lost most of their homeland,” Palestinian academic Dr Yara Hawari told TRT World.

“It was solidified as the only solution by the Oslo Peace Accords which attempted to stage the process of Palestinian statehood,” she added.

Ignoring key issues

During the formation of Israel in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homes and sent into exile across the Middle East. They and their descendants continue to live outside of their homeland with no right of return.

Their plight was further compounded after the Arab defeat in the 1967 war, which saw Israel capture the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, which remain under occupation to this day.

According to Hawari, the Oslo accords never addressed the key issues of Palestinian refugees being allowed to return home, or the final status of Jerusalem, and was therefore no solution to the conflict.

“The two state solution fails to address the wrong doing of the 1948 Nakba,” she said, adding:

InfraBlue wrote:

These people fail to understand that the conflict between the Zionists and the Palestinians will never be resolved until the former owns its obligations to the latter, their Right of Return. If there is one thing these "progressives" should understand it is this, the Palestinians will never relinquish this right of theirs.

So in other words, the Palestinians reject peace.