From Professor Erakat's Twitter:
Feel free to skip my amateur, stressed-out thoughts. As I have said before, my perspective is incontrovertibly about Israel remaining intact, so please don't be offended if I don't preface every statement as if it is from another perspective.
-If it were me, I would prioritize negotiating the return of bodies. Obviously, there are concerns about endangering anyone who is involved in the transfer process, on a physical level. There is also the symbolic aspect of providing a body for mourning that can be politically charged. I would consider working through those issues to be a productive endeavor.
-Occupation is an interesting question. What does anyone do about a population that incorporates lethality into its educational system in every grade? In that sense, occupation can be construed as defensive rather than oppressive, although I know that no tactic among nations, their predecessors or their colleagues in animosity is ever motivated by entirely unselfish goals.
-I suppose that dual citizenship is out of the question? It seems as if the prospect of conceding the loss of the territory that was turned into the original State of Israel is psychologically excruciating for the Palestinian-aligned. Unfortunately, dual citizenship across a larger territory would make voting Israel into a nonentity an immediate threat.
All very amateur, but those are my thoughts for now.
