Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog!

How are things in West Germany and East Germany?

Oh. Wait… You mean there’s only the one united Germany?

But in South Africa partition worked, right?

No. Apartheid in South Africa was put to an end by a single united South African Republic.

But surely, I mean, the whole partition of India and Pakistan thing… I mean that was good right? We’ve got two states coexisting peacefully, right?

Excuse me please while I laugh too hard for words.

When has partition ever worked? And how is partition not exactly what exists in the Levant right now?

Spain, Ireland, most of the world actually, recognizes the State of Palestine. Most of the world also recognizes the State of Israel. Unless I forgot how to count, that’s two states.

Alright alright, the one doesn’t have a constitution and is facing a crisis in the judiciary and a crisis in the balance of powers—the other is Palestine.

Don’t tell me this isn’t already the ‘two-state solution.’ It sure is and it sure doesn’t work.

Pakistan and India are nuclear-powered rivals who have never stopped being at war. And partition itself was horrible. Entire trains arrived in Pakistan, no living person aboard, only the corpses of murder victims. Villages were beset, entire populations massacred. The partition of India was one of the darkest moments in our modern history. Their enmity has never abated.

And just who would support a Palestinian state against an Israeli state? Is the United States going to supply them both with weapons? Of course not. They’ll throw some aid money at the Palestinians and send the occupiers more weapons of mass destruction—be real, that’s what a ‘bunker buster’ is, a uranium-tipped weapon of mass destruction with an inexcusable kill-radius. Yes, that depleted uranium is causing cancers wherever we’ve dropped them, in Kosovo, Iraq, anywhere we’ve been.

There can be no two-state solution that actually solves anything. A two-state solution looks pretty good to the military industrial complex because it’s a guarantee of forever wars. That’s how you know something is wrong, when weapons manufacturers benefit.

Be real. Be reasonable. Be logical. One state is the only solution, an entirely democratic union that guarantees equal rights for all, no matter what it’s called.