Germany’s Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, backed a bill to criminalize the denial of Israel’s right to exist on Friday, a motion that constitutional experts said could jeopardize freedom of expression.
According to the bill, anyone denying Israel’s right to exist or calling for its abolition would be punished with a prison sentence of up to five years under the regulation. The bill will be examined by the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, after its summer recess.
Why should they be or even need to be eager to legitimize the settler colonial state that has been killing their families and stealing their homes for nearly a century? A two state solution isn’t the only peaceful solution. One state where Palestinians actually have rights and control over their own governance doesn’t break the laws of physics, people have just decided (based on religious beliefs) that European Jewish people have more right to control the land there than people whose ancestors have lived there for thousands of years.
But people love their Abrahamic religious ethnostates and are propagandized as hell, so I don’t expect people to accept any of that any time soon.
I agree with you. I just think there’s too much friction on both sides because let’s be real… these grudges are not going away. The Israeli think of Palestinians as inhuman suicide bombers and the Palestinians are rightfully bitter about being displaced…
This conflict will not have a positive resolution I’m afraid.