Are their no Canadians to suggest our solution? Has it worked THAT badly?
Levesque did not lead to Trudeau shelling pockets of resistance near Eaton's.
Turned out we just had to change the name to "Eaton" and something in there about their own pension and justice systems and all kinds of little, honestly, little concessions of partial inde…
Are their no Canadians to suggest our solution? Has it worked THAT badly?
Levesque did not lead to Trudeau shelling pockets of resistance near Eaton's.
Turned out we just had to change the name to "Eaton" and something in there about their own pension and justice systems and all kinds of little, honestly, little concessions of partial independence. Les Anglais may bitch and whine about how lucky, lucky Quebec gets special treatment, but....it seems to have worked. No killings.
The new Trudeau could change the story with the "Canadian 1.5 State solution".
I'm kidding. Of course. Or, really, providing a Poilievre fantasy issue.
You can absolutely devise a version of reality where a one-state solution works — there's already plenty of Arab Israelis, e.g., who have a good amount of political power, in normal times. I just don't think it's the reality we're living in. It's not like this was a functional relationship that had tensions arising from inequality (Quebec, Northern Ireland) it was a fundamentally unworkable relationship from the very beginning. It would have been nice if the world had figured this out in 1948, instead of shrugging and moving on, but here we are.
Separating would also be *very good* for Israeli politics. If a division were fair and amicable, it would finally remove, I think, that existential dread that Israelis face.
I guess if Israel was founded almost a century prior and they had fought a seven year war with only one Arab neighbour, then maybe there would be some equivalencies. Sadly, Israel was the last country in the region carved out by the Colonial Powers and seems to have paid the price from the start.
The entire area as stands today was created by Colonial Powers. Before that it was the Empire of the day that decided the delineation. If it was done in 1848 we wouldn't be having this conversation but, rather mostly symbolic sharing as in Canada.
Are their no Canadians to suggest our solution? Has it worked THAT badly?
Levesque did not lead to Trudeau shelling pockets of resistance near Eaton's.
Turned out we just had to change the name to "Eaton" and something in there about their own pension and justice systems and all kinds of little, honestly, little concessions of partial independence. Les Anglais may bitch and whine about how lucky, lucky Quebec gets special treatment, but....it seems to have worked. No killings.
The new Trudeau could change the story with the "Canadian 1.5 State solution".
I'm kidding. Of course. Or, really, providing a Poilievre fantasy issue.
You can absolutely devise a version of reality where a one-state solution works — there's already plenty of Arab Israelis, e.g., who have a good amount of political power, in normal times. I just don't think it's the reality we're living in. It's not like this was a functional relationship that had tensions arising from inequality (Quebec, Northern Ireland) it was a fundamentally unworkable relationship from the very beginning. It would have been nice if the world had figured this out in 1948, instead of shrugging and moving on, but here we are.
Separating would also be *very good* for Israeli politics. If a division were fair and amicable, it would finally remove, I think, that existential dread that Israelis face.
I had the good luck to catch the lecture a decade or so back, from Dr. Ali Abunimah at U.Calgary about his one-state crusade (whoa, wrong word!).
He made a very persuasive case, and Wikipedia says he is still pushing it, calling the two-state option the impossible, never-happen one.
That's a good observation. Those parallels did not occur to me!
I guess if Israel was founded almost a century prior and they had fought a seven year war with only one Arab neighbour, then maybe there would be some equivalencies. Sadly, Israel was the last country in the region carved out by the Colonial Powers and seems to have paid the price from the start.
I agree. The problems stem from Israel being carved out by the Colonial Powers.
The entire area as stands today was created by Colonial Powers. Before that it was the Empire of the day that decided the delineation. If it was done in 1848 we wouldn't be having this conversation but, rather mostly symbolic sharing as in Canada.