The last installment was late, but this one is right on time.
Every week, on Wednesday's, we have Israel seminar where we discuss the modern Israeli state. This week, we began discussing the situation regarding the settlements in relation to the 6 Day War. We had two speakers come in to talk to us, but we spent time in class discussing as well. One of the speakers gave a great example about what needs to happen for peace to come to this part of the world.
He said there are three variables: a democratic state, a Jewish state, and the whole land of Israel. He said that you can only have two of those at a time, but not all three. If you have a democratic Jewish state, you have to give up the territories. If you have a democratic state in the whole land of Israel, you have to give up the Jewish aspect of the state. If you have Jewish state in the whole land of Israel, you have to give up democracy.
This is a very simple way of looking at the situation, but also very obvious. Having all three of these together is impossible. If you have to choose, which one would you give up?
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