I salute you, Professor Biko Agozino for your courageous, thoughtful, and conscientious one-state proposition for a permanent resolution of the age-old Israeli-Palestinian bloodletting against the backdrop of the extant cacophony of mainstream media's and Western ruling classes' lop-sided rhetoric that is weighted in favor of symptoms and almost completely oblivious of root causes. It's a proposition that affirms the humanity of both sides.
If there is a sewage leakage in a home, it cannot be stopped by merely whipping away the surface spew; you must painstakingly look for, locate the source of the leakage, and plug or fix it. This is a lesson derived from the fundamental logic that underlies life itself. Divine logic is the foundation of the universe, the foundation of life. Logic makes airplanes fly; logic makes automobiles ply the roads; logic makes instantaneous short and long-distance communication possible across space and time; etc. Our human problems basically arise from deviations from divine logic, deviations from the Maatic Order.
While the Western mainstream media and Western politicians are busy hand wringing and trying to be politically-out-correct one another over the festering sore in the Middle-East (a festering sore that has the potential to destabilize the global order as we know it), as articulated, your proposal is a human-centered and empathic attempt to help two warring sides to try to come to the table of reason and try to work out a lasting and peaceful resolution to an ancient dispute. Yours affirms the humanity of both Jews and Palestinians.
Your proposition reminds me of an apt philosophical clarion call from Professor Achille Mbembe: "If we don't rehabilitate reason, we will not be able to fix our broken world." Once again, I salute you, Professor Agozino!
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