I'd like to report "A Massive Moral Black Hole" by A. Moriah as an offensive comment. It in effect calls for the end of the Washington Post's editorial staff. It is illegal, racist, underhanded, disingenuous, patently false, factually deceptive, and deeply offensive to the Post, Post readers and fair-minded people throughout the world to say there is a massive moral black hole in the Washington Post's editorial staff for accepting this article in the first place.

I'd like to report "A Massive Moral Black Hole" by Rami G. Khouri as an offensive comment. It in effect calls for the end of a UN-chartered member nation. It is illegal, rascist, underhanded, disingenious, patently false, factually deceptive, and deeply offensive to Israelis and Jews and fair-minded people throughout the world to say that the Jews', and only the Jews', right to self-determination is illegitimate and void. I would also like to note a massive moral black hole in the Washington Post's editorial staff for accepting this article in the first place.

Unfortunately, Zionism remains the guiding ideology in Israel. A racist, anachronistic, and disgusting ideology at that.

But we, in the United States find it quite acceptable! And we give the Israelis $3 BILLION per year of our taxpayer money so that they can continue terrorizing the Palestinians.

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"Israel and its foundational ideology of Zionism have always had a structural problem with how to accommodate Arab and Jewish nationalism in a single country".

No so!!!

I invite the author to read, once, Israel's Proclamation of Independence by simply Google for it. In it Israeli founders, people from the right and left, religious and secular, men and women, Ashkenazim and Sphardim, set out Israel's vision. They all accepted UN General Assembly Resolution 181 that in principle calls for a Jewish nation-state and an Arab nation-state in Eretz Israel (Land of Israel/Palestine), 14 May 1947.

Furthermore, the Proclamation calls for equality under Israeli law for Jews and Arabs, which has been the case since Israel was proclaimed as the independent nation-state of the Jewish people on 15 May 1948.

To this day all citizens in Israel are equal citizens before the law. All are eligible to vote and be elected, all serve in all branches of Israeli government, all serve in Israel's military and police forces.

The only sad element about this story is that the Arabs of Eretz Israel never intended to set up their own independent state as called for by the UN and have rejected all offers to do so, e.g. 1937, 1947, 2000 and have done nothing, absolutely nothing to set up their own state between the years 1948 and 1967 in the entire western bank, eastern Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip when these territories were under full, total Arab control. Instead, they exerted efforts to wipe Israel off the face of earth – which appears to be the motive behind the existence of a Palestinian Arab national movement in the first place. Note, the Fatah, Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas's organization, was set up as far back as 1957, ten years before Israel captured the now disputed territories in a defensive war, and in its Charter proclaimed the elimination of all Jewish institutions in Palestine, i.e. the land between the Jordan and the Sea, including Jewish civilization in this land which is its cradle. As for the Jews in it, only those living in the Land since before 1917 may remain. It is not clear whether the rest would be expelled or worse, much worse…!!

To now sling blame on Israel is pathetic. Normally I would suggest that a person either does so based on lack of knowledge or pure malice. In this case I can't believe the writer does not know the fact, thus malice is the reason.

The only question that I have is, for what end…??

I think one should not engage in the views of Shalomfreedman, especially since they claim Khouri is not tolerant only to then talk about transfer of populations; Slightly contradictory!

Instead, it might help to take Khouri's view one step further and say that it is time to openly call, as he more or less seems to want to do, for a one state solution. Of course, such a call should be accompanied by strong advocacy regarding the equality of both people and address the fears of Jewish citizens. It should be framed within a movement that is also very distant from old forms of nationhood in which one supremacy is substituted for another (Hamas might fall into this category as it seems to be the Muslim version of Zionism). All logics lead to a one-state, the question is which kind of one-state do we want. The faster we recognize this and win the debate and battle over the most equal and just framework, the better it will be for everyone. Not only for the Israelis and Palestinians, but also for other surrounding countries that have learned to adopt racist zionist ideas in a mutated form: Lebanese sectarianism and Islamic fundamentalism are some examples which have found space to mobilize (rather than simply exist in the margins) as a response to the success of Zionism (as an exclusionary, racist idea that benefits certain people).

This is a typical ignorant bigoted rant. It takes reality and turns it upside down. It is in essence a repetition of the same propaganda piece the Arabs have been trying to weaken and destroy Israel with for years. First of all, the source of the conflict is not the 'Palestinian refugees' but rather the Arab effort to drive the Jews out of the Holy Land. Secondly, there is not one Arab nation which has anything like the democratic freedoms Israel affords to its Arab minority. Third, the party which this article refers to is called, Israel Beitenu. It offers as part of a peace plan, the trading of heavily Arab areas in Israel to a future Palestinian Arab state in return for heavily Jewish areas in the West Bank ( Judea and Samaria) becoming part of Israel. This piece shows why there is no peace between Arabs and Jews. It is again a total failure of the Arabs to recognize and accept one small Jewish state in a vast territory one- eighth of the land mass of the world. The intolerance and ignorance displayed in this piece are so typical of the kind of thinking one sees and hears everyday from this part of the world. It is truly a disgrace and a shame.