Why? The enfranchised Palestinians in a united Israel/Palestine would have no reason to start one. A one-state solution would leave things exactly as they are now, everybody living where they live now and under the same government they live under now, except that the Palestinians would have votes and seats in the Knesset. It would make more sense for them to use those to redress their grievances. And why would the Jews start a civil war?!
That’s a strange POV. What possible difference does it make to the individual whether one’s ancestors arrived in 1300 AD or 12,000 BC?
Many native americans are not “indigenous” to where the happen to be living right now, either, by that account. For example, the Innuit only gradually arrived in the Arctic over the period 1100-1500 AD., but few would treat them as conceptually different from other Native Americans, as “relatively recent immigrants”.
The most telling argument against a one-state solution is that neither side wants it.
The goals of anti zionists is the destruction of Israel, they are not interested in living peaceably alongside them, they want to get rid of them
Meh. The term “anti Zionist” is too vague and describes people too disunited to have any meaning or any united goal.
People who could be described by that term range from European-style leftists who vaguely disapprove of Israel as a vestige of European-style colonialism and have no real goal for it in mind, to Ultra-Orthodox Jews who disapprove of the Israeli state as blasphemous, to pan-Arabic nationalists who do indeed wish to destroy the Israeli state to make way for an Arabic one, to Islamic fundamentalists who hate it because it is composed of uppity Jews, to Jew haters who hate it because the majority of its population are Jews.
None of these folks have much in common and most of them dislike each other for various reasons as much as they dislike the Israeli state.
I am a Zionist (albeit one often critical of Israeli policies) and the demonization of the other side’s POV, as exemplified in this op, is something I disagree with strongly.
Yes, there are some who are against Zionism as a cover for antisemitism, and those who wish for nothing less than the expulsion of Jews from the land. AND there are many others who honestly believe that Zionism is wrong. And some who use Zionism as a convenient whipping boy to distract from other domestic Arab issues and to try to rally support to a cause. And others who are misinformed about the historical facts. And others whose understanding of the facts are accurate enough as far as they go and who have concluded that Palestinian Arabs have a stronger case than do Israeli Jews. I have a different conclusion myself but their having that conclusion does not mean that they are only interested in the destruction of Israel. Honestly my sense is that currently it is a minority of Palestinian Arabs (most of whom may endorse an anti-Zionist label) who would state that the goal is the destruction of Israel.
The hope is to get to a point where both sides see their best future as one that includes two states whose best interests include helping the other state succeed. (You don’t need to like your business partner; you just need to recognize that when you both do better, you do better as well.)
The Jews just need to have more kids. Much much more, to offset the birth rate of the Palestinians.
At the point that the Jews are outnumbered in the Knesset…but still dominate the army, a civil war would make sense. (Horrible sense, but sense.)
Especially if “redressing grievances” means dismantling the Jewish state.
Strictly speaking the “goals of anti-Zionists” should be to gather the Jewish people in a homeland on the opposite point of the globe from Jerusalem.