| | I don’t fault any Zionist or ally of Israel for having embraced the two-state solution, as I did for many years. No other peace plan could reconcile self-interest and lofty principles so seamlessly. No other plan could offer a better way to transcend the contradictions that reality imposed on Israelis, by making a Zionist argument, no less, for Palestinian statehood. Far more powerful than a mere solution to a problem, the idea of two states was, for many of us, an irresistible form of seduction—a promise that partition could make Israel whole. The seduction came from our core Zionist beliefs. Our own Declaration of Independence says that “It is the natural right of the Jewish peoples to be, like all peoples, masters of their own fate, in their own sovereign state.” Partition would make that stance internally coherent, validating our own right by fighting for theirs. It would also reconcile liberalism with nationalism. After all, the occupation threatens both, because it not only violates the human rights of Palestinians, it also endangers the Jewish majority. Partition would solve both problems in one fell swoop. | | | MORE ARTICLES | American and Arizona citizens have lost faith in our election system. Following elections in 2018, the very broken and Covid poisoned election of 2020 and the nationally embarrassing 2022 Arizona election (especially in Maricopa County where over 60% of AZ ballots are cast), We the People are justified in lacking faith in the system. Without election integrity and confidence in each citizen’s vote, representative government, i.e., our Republic (not the Left’s ‘Democracy’), cannot exist and appears close to that outcome being engineered by the radical leftist and Marxist cabal we used to call the Democratic Party. | | Fontes dismissed concerns about Arizona’s election administration, but a new lawsuit alleges widespread failures. While Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes was in D.C. this week smearing election integrity advocates as election “deniers,” a lawsuit was filed against Maricopa County election officials by the local nonprofit civic group Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona and Eric Lovelis, a Maricopa County resident and member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. | | One of the pillars of Stalinism was the attack on individually owned farms and private property, and the forced introduction of collective farming. Stalin himself never came to Casa Grande in Arizona, but his ideas certainly did. These ideas came to Arizona largely through university professors and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and created the largest agricultural collective in the US as an experiment to test socialist theories about both farming and human nature. | | MUST SEE VIDEOS | | | | | | | ABOUT THE PRICKLY PEAR | The Prickly Pear (ThePricklyPear.org) is focused on delivering timely, fact-based news, and citizen opinion that reflects our mission to “inform, educate and advocate about the principles of limited government and personal liberty.” Please follow us on Twitter @PricklyPear_AZ for all our latest content. | | |
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