the roamer

"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
May 29, 2024 at 3:18pmWeb
Show threadNoam writesMay 29, 2024

@the_roamer @rudoren Good piece, thanks for sharing.

There is no hope for resolving the dueling historical narratives of the Holy Land. A peace agreement is possible only if it takes today as its starting point and focuses on the future.

A future in which Palestine and Israel exist side by side, recognized by each other and all the world as the nation-states of their respective peoples.