No country, no worries
Just when you thought prospects for a Mideast peace could not get any dimmer, The Atlantic’s Robert Kaplan explains why groups like the Palestinians might not want a state after all, so long as statelessness is their source of power:
[T]he most tempting aspect of statelessness is that it permits a people to savor the pleasures of religious zeal, extremist ideologies, and moral absolutes, without having to make the kinds of messy, mundane compromises that accompany the work of looking after a geographical space.
Kaplan actually draws on this piece by Jakub Grygiel at Johns Hopkins.
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