Alastair Crooke's Monday Activities

Alastair Crooke does an excellent job today as teacher with his SCF essay and during his video chat with Judge Napolitano, the subject being the Zionist Project organized by Ariel Sharon and furthered by Netanyahu. From the essay:

The late Ariel Sharon, a long-time Israeli military and political leader, once confided to his close friend Uri Dan that, “the Arabs had never genuinely accepted the presence of Israel … and so, a two-state solution was not possible – nor even desirable”.

In the minds of these two – as well as for most Israelis today – is the ‘Gordian Knot’ that sits at the heart of Zionism: How to maintain differential rights over a physical terrain that includes a large Palestinian population.

Israeli leaders believed that in Sharon’s unconventional approach of ‘spatial ambiguity’, Israel was close to evolving a solution to the conundrum of managing differential rights within a Zionist majority state, which includes substantial minorities. Palestinians, many Israelis believed (until recently), were being successfully contained in a striated political and physical space – and were even being “disappeared” from significance – only for Hamas, on 7 October, to blow apart that whole elaborate paradigm.

This event has triggered a widespread and existential fear that the Zionist project could possibly implode, were its Zionist exceptionalist foundations to be rejected by a wide resistance ready to take the issue to war.

He explains all that and much more with the Judge and details why the general notion of any Two-State Solution given current realities is untenable. Most importantly, Crooke raises the question of what entity is going to remove the Zionists from the West Bank plus enable the connection between Gaza and West Bank as a viable geographic entity.

Altogether, it'll take 45 minutes to read and watch the two. An excellent usage of time IMO.

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