Written on November 21st, 2012
Edited in April 2014
In
the two-state solution, Gaza and the West Bank form a
geographically-separated Palestinian government. In the three-state
solution, Gaza gets governed by neighboring Egypt, and the West Bank
gets governed by neighboring Jordan.
Some
supporters of Palestine support Palestinian statehood with full
membership in and recognition by the United Nations. This would help
Palestinians pursue cases against Israel in the International
Criminal Court, which it can't do now because it isn't considered a
sovereign country.
But
I don't support Palestinian statehood because I don't support Statism
(territorial monopoly on government), and I don't support its U.N.
membership because I oppose international government and I think the
U.N. Security Council is a five-country tyranny over world affairs.
I
think the Palestinians should pursue nationhood instead of Statism;
they should give political minorities the right to have their own
government systems (if they can exist without making demands on
non-consenting people). I think they can do this by considering
common and natural law systems, and constitutional law with emphasis
on libertarianism, decentralization of power, and contract rights
originating with the people.
It's
also very important that the Palestinian nation or nations (nation =
group of people; State = corporatized monopoly government) allow communities to be
autonomous.
This
is because the most ultra-Orthodox Jews who oppose Zionism believe
that until the Messiah comes, the only kind of man-made government
which is permissible is one in which Jewish communities are governed
by the rabbinic law interpretations of 23-rabbi courts (sanhedrins),
with a 71-rabbi court in Jerusalem.
Although
Jerusalem's court is bigger, it's a decentralized system, and there
wouldn't be centralized control over Jewish religious affairs, which
in the modern State of Israel is wielded by the Chief Rabbinate of
Israel.
In
summary, I support Jewish theo-kritocratic (rule by G-d and
[rabbinic] judges; krito = rule by judges) communal autonomy,
operating within a form of Palestinian nationhood (not Statism) which
embraces individual and local political rights.
Neturei
Karta and the followers of Yoel and Moshe Teitelbaum believe that
first, the State of Israel must be dismantled (hopefully peacefully);
not just the secular aspects of the government, but the religious
aspects too.
The
late Meir Kahane and his brother would argue that only the secular
aspects of the State should be dismantled.
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