31 December 2009

Two states; dead in the water?

I suspect this will turn out to be the harbinger of a new politics regarding the middle east:
I've changed my mind about a two-state solution | Mehdi Hasan | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "The two-state solution, the popular and principled option for so long now, is neither practical nor possible. In the words of Israeli academic Jeff Halper, 'Israel by its own hand has rendered a viable two-state solution impossible.' Its time has passed. So the moment has come, as we enter the teenies, to forget the idea of a Palestinian state existing side by side with a Jewish state, and to argue and agitate instead for the only remaining, viable and democratic option: a single, secular and binational state for Israelis and Palestinians. No longer 'two states for two peoples', but 'one person, one vote'."

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"Spend and tax" not "tax and spend"

 I got a response from my MP which got me kind of mad. You'll see why as I reproduce it here. Apologies for the strange changes in types...