the roamerMay 29, 2024

"Only once Israel and Palestine recognize each other’s right to exist can they start talking about how to maintain safe and durable borders, resettle refugees and provide everyone reasonable access to the holy sites. The question is not who did what to whom in the past, but how they want to live, separately, in the future."

Jodi Rudoren (@rudoren) writes in The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/29/us-recognition-palestine-state

#Israel #Palestine #Peace #MutualRecognition #JodiRudoren

The US must recognize Palestine as a state. It’s time to look to the future, not the past

Only once Israel and Palestine recognize each other’s right to exist can they start thinking about what comes next

The Guardian
BellingenNSWApr 24, 2023
Robinson Crusoe and the politics of #individualism – a colonial adventure story.
"#Castaway stories are premised on the idea that the freedom of human beings is fundamentally as individuals. . .The achievement of human freedom for individuals can only be realised socially as the #freedom of all. Only then can we truly #rescue Robinson from his island."
https://theconversation.com/the-politics-of-the-castaway-story-200827
#RobinsonCrusoe #Island #Trope #Nature #ordeal #Colonial #Expansion #MutualRecognition #SelfSufficiency
The politics of the castaway story

By taking human beings out of society, castaway stories suggest our individualist survival instincts come to the fore. But no man (or woman) is an island. True freedom comes through co-operation.

The Conversation