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Enlightened, Beautiful, Two-state Israel Should Declare Independence From Jewish Fundamentalists

| June 30, 2019

If the upcoming elections don't produce real change, if West Bank annexation becomes reality, if democratic norms and the rule of law continue to deteriorate, we need a new partition plan — this time, for Israel itself

Unless September's re-run elections lead to major change, the enlightened part of Israel will have to secede — and declare its own national independence.

This new partition, 72 years after the UN Partition Plan, would be designed to bring about the establishment of a Jewish, Zionist and liberal democratic state in the Land of Israel. The new state will be called "Israel." The state on the remaining ruins of the old one will be known as "Fundamentaliststan."

The guiding principle is quite simple. Anyone who is not Zionist, secular or religiously moderate, productive and committed to the norms of liberal democracy and to separation from the Palestinians, will not be included in the new state....

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Chuck Freilich

Chuck Freilich

  • Former Senior Fellow, International Security Program, January 2006–October 2019
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