cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/9467355

The Peace Fund will invest in programmes that advance a two-state solution, help reduce division, strengthen civil society, and support dialogue and cooperation within and between Israeli and Palestinian communities, building the foundations for peace, a joint statement between the three governments say.

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The fund will seek to scale up and ​attract ​additional donors ⁠once operational.

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Fund announced ahead of meeting ​in Britain between UK ​foreign ⁠minister Yvette Cooper and her Australian and Canadian ⁠counterparts, ​Penny Wong and ​Anita Anand.

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[–] 8 points 5 months ago

How's about, we stop sending weapons to Israel, so they can stop committing actual genocide? Then the leaders can get the Nuremberg treatment. And then it can be a one state, back to Palestine.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I look forward to see if this goes anywhere and it's not just a PR song-and-dance replacing taking real action to stop the ongoing slaughter. At this point it sounds vapid.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Is this the same Labour Party who banned Palestine Action?

    Colour me "press X to doubt".

    Leave Labor/Labour, people, for parties who actually share your values. Ffs.

    What an absolute farce.

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    [–] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's better than nothing, but in this day and age $4 million feels like peanuts. Israel is probably spending $4 million a day bombing the shit out of them.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    $4 million is enough to make it look like a lot money to the average person but not enough to actually do much at all. Even the most minor of domestic infrastructure projects would easily cost more than this; $4 million in today's economy is nothing, unfortunately.

    Israel probably spends this amount per hour. Per minute during an active attack.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago

    The fund will seek to scale up and ​attract ​additional donors ⁠once operational.

    It's not the end of the story, and as you say, it's a a step in the right direction at least. And it's much better than what the US does, or what Russia and China do in their hemispheres.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Didn't they pull funding from UNRWA after Israel did a massive smear campaign against it? UNRWA was literally the lifeline for Gaza.

    The best way to encourage a 2 state solution is by sanctioning Israel for the genocide they're perpetrating and the apartheid they're enacting against Palestinians in Israel.

    Not to mention that Israel's settlements plan is literally to subvert the chances of a 2 state solutions. So good luck with "educational lessons" to bridge the gap of distrust.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Ask Lebanon how their two state solution with Israel is going.

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  • The two state solution died with Yitzhak Rabin after he was assasinated.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    I can almost guarantee this will do literally nothing other than delay and punish Palestinians in their goal towards national liberation

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Oh boy, a whole 4 million. Hey didn't Canada dump more than 20 billion into oil and gas last year?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Oops, I think you might have gotten lost somewhere along the way…

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    In that case, the answer is simply that what you're suggesting is slightly more expensive. It's the same answer across the board for every single environmental or climate problem we have had in the last century. The solution is slightly, like a fraction of a percentage point, more expensive, and so they won't do it.

    I like your suggestion for Israel though. It should be turned into a closed loop system , and the waste should be filtered off through boiling.

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    [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    How many decades do we have to burn on this lie of a two-state solution before we admit that it's always been a way for Israel to continue squeezing Palestinians off their lands?

    There should be one secular state, free of apartheid.

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