Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: If I were PM, I would de-Zionize Israel and quit [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The Knesset won't end up meeting in Tel Aviv(even though peace would have been much easier to achieve if the Israeli capital had been there from the start...and I think you'd have to admit that Israel would have better governance if its parliament met in a progressive, secular city rather than a religious extremist encampment that's going to be right-wing in its municipal politics and inter-religious relations for the rest of eternity).
They should have just said that Jerusalem was the "spiritual capital" and left it at that. It was a disaster to put the political capital there. And only people like Bibi and Lieberman and those to their right ever benefited from the political capital being in the religious extremist center.
Tel Aviv is a modern city. Jerusalem is doomed to go back to the 12th Century. It can't be a city of peace, fraternity and equality. It can't be humane or beautiful. Tel Aviv represents what Israel was SUPPOSED to be. Jerusalem represents what the pro-hatred factions within Zionism want Israel to become...a country YOU would never want to live in, and a country that could never be progressive or humane after become what the extremists are turning it into now.
The only way to save anything progressive in Israel is to move the capital out of the city of hate, the city that can never recover from what it's degenerated into now, and move it to Tel Aviv, where humane secular, life-loving people still live.
I realize that won't happen, and that Israel's capital will stay in a right-wing city. And you realize that too, and that no new story can actually change that. So let it go already.