I love Leonard Nimoy. Star Trek is my favorite TV series ever. I'm grateful that he had addressed this supremely divisive issue, & all sane people share his desire for peace & justice for all Israelis and Palestinians.
Having said that, I must say Nimoy's take on it is the same old 'each side is equally to blame, & this has gone on for thousands of years' argument. We know, of course, this is not the case. The (mostly) Brown indigenous Arab & Jewish Palestinians got along together just fine for hundreds of years, until the White Jewish Europeans terrorists began demanding (around the 1920s & 30s) the land for themselves & killing those who resisted (sound familiar, Americans?). Thus, the ‘state’ (if you can call a ‘country’ that which has never defined its borders) of Israel ended up being founded upon acts of terrorism.
In the end, the indigenous Arab-Palestinians are (mostly) guilty of resisting an illegal & brutal occupation (and theft) of their land, which even the UN has recognized as a universal right of all occupied peoples.
And so, after all of the evil—Apartheid, torture (including of children), genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, land theft, & so on—Israel has spread in Palestinian lands (mostly fomented by those European immigrants & their descendants), I suspect the only viable resolution is now a One-State solution, which may well be called 'Palestine'. This is one of the ways that Israel can make penitence for those aforementioned crimes.
If Israel & its supporters are unhappy with that eventuality, they've no one to blame but themselves. If they'd adopted Nimoy's attitude back in 1947, the whole situation may have been a 'completely different movie' by now. Peace will come, & come soon, but not at the expense of justice for the indigoes Palestinians. I think Nimoy will be pleased when that day arrives.
I love Leonard Nimoy. Star Trek is my favorite TV series ever. I'm grateful that he had addressed this supremely divisive issue, & all sane people share his desire for peace & justice for all Israelis and Palestinians.
Having said that, I must say Nimoy's take on it is the same old 'each side is equally to blame, & this has gone on for thousands of years' argument. We know, of course, this is not the case. The (mostly) Brown indigenous Arab & Jewish Palestinians got along together just fine for hundreds of years, until the White Jewish Europeans terrorists began demanding (around the 1920s & 30s) the land for themselves & killing those who resisted (sound familiar, Americans?). Thus, the ‘state’ (if you can call a ‘country’ that which has never defined its borders) of Israel ended up being founded upon acts of terrorism.
In the end, the indigenous Arab-Palestinians are (mostly) guilty of resisting an illegal & brutal occupation (and theft) of their land, which even the UN has recognized as a universal right of all occupied peoples.
And so, after all of the evil—Apartheid, torture (including of children), genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, land theft, & so on—Israel has spread in Palestinian lands (mostly fomented by those European immigrants & their descendants), I suspect the only viable resolution is now a One-State solution, which may well be called 'Palestine'. This is one of the ways that Israel can make penitence for those aforementioned crimes.
If Israel & its supporters are unhappy with that eventuality, they've no one to blame but themselves. If they'd adopted Nimoy's attitude back in 1947, the whole situation may have been a 'completely different movie' by now. Peace will come, & come soon, but not at the expense of justice for the indigoes Palestinians. I think Nimoy will be pleased when that day arrives.