So, there's no room for false hope or assumptions of inevitable victory. There's an opportunity now for a successful fight to defeat Zionism, pitched precisely as struggle against colonialism and apartheid, and it must be seized quickly. It is also not impossible for Zionism to defeat the Palestinians in some effectively irreversible way, as it keeps trying to do.
It's just the case--the practical, utterly realistic political case--that nothing, not a thing, can be gained by trying to revive the zombie two-state peace process that has been killed over and over again by the U.S. and Israel themselves. To seal the deal, Donald Trump just drove a stake through its heart. There is no two-state solution. There is only one state: either the one colonial, apartheid state that's coalescing now, or the one democratic state of equal rights that justice demands.
For American left allies of Palestine, it's time, past time, to clearly reject, not just the occupation of Jerusalem or the West Bank, but Zionism tout court.
Back to the future it is. Liberal Zionists like to imagine '48 is finished in some democratically acceptable way. Militant Zionists know they still have to finish '48 as ruthlessly as possible. Principled anti-Zionists--that is, principled anti-colonialists--have to work very hard to make sure that '48 ends in failure, and that Israel never becomes the finished colonial project it wishes to be.
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This article incorporates parts of an earlier related post: Gaza Calling: It's the Colonialism, Stupid!
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