Two-State Solution Seems DOA; NATO Should Be Disbanded: CORNEL WEST
Long-shot U.S. presidential hopeful has been a critic of Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Cornell West, an independent candidate for U.S. president, said in an interview that he believes any idea of a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine is gone amid the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli blockade and genocide in Gaza.
“I think a two-state solution is gone,” he told Mehdi Hasan, the host of Zeteo. “There once was a moment which it was possible” and he thinks that “precious Palestinians” and “precious Jews” can learn to live together in one state where there is equal protection of their rights.
“That’s the only solution, it seems to me,” he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told members of his Likud party that only he can prevent any hope for a Palestinian state in Gaza or the West Bank. The Biden administration, at least publicly, has called for a two-state solution but recently vetoed a UN resolution that would recognize Palestine as a full member.
DISMANTLE NATO
Hasan asked West about his desire to dismantle NATO as the bloc prepares for a potential war with Russia.
He called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “gangster like so many other elites across-the-board,” but he’s dealing with the American Empire that promised it would not extend NATO to the border with Russia.
“The expansion of NATO pushes him against the wall,” he said.
He said Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine is exactly what the U.S. would do if there were Russian missiles in Mexico of Canada.
He called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a criminal act but said dismantling NATO could dramatically reduce pressure between Putin and the West and lead to a more sensible relationship.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal reported in 2016 that “forward positions in Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltic States are hundreds of miles further east than the Oder-Neisse border between Germany and Poland, where U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush solemnly promised Soviet and Russian leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin that NATO would halt its expansion more than a quarter-century ago.”