Dubowitz says a single state with equal rights for all is “a position that could lead to dangerous violence.”
What is happening right now? Israel is killing civilians by the thousands in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, burning and demolishing entire villages, and poisoning the land with white phosphorus and G-d knows what else.
What would “dangerous violence” look like if this isn’t it?
No. It’s not violent or dangerous. It is grounded in facts. Beinart’s defenders are attacking me but avoid the central issue: he has called for the end of Israel as a Jewish state. He advocates a “one-state solution” without acknowledging it could trigger bloodshed on a scale of the Lebanese Civil War, the Yugoslav Wars, the Syrian Civil War or the Iraqi Civil Wars (that resulted from the Iraq War that Beinart advocated for). This could lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of Jews and Arabs. That’s a position that could lead to dangerous violence.
That position mirrors the vision long promoted by Iran’s late supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who spoke of a “referendum” where demographics would spell the end of Israel. He simultaneously built nuclear capabilities, ballistic missiles, and terror proxies to help bring about the end of Israel by force. I haven’t seen Beinart make the case to eliminate Israel by force though he often excuses Palestinian terrorism.
You can debate the difference in tactics between Beinart and these other Israel eliminationists (including his counterparts on the right like Tucker Carlson). But the objective, the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state, is the same.