One-State Solution

If not two states, then one

by News Sources 12.06.2012

Saree Makdisi writes: Israel did not wait long to reveal its first response to the United Nations General Assembly’s overwhelming recognition of Palestine as a non-member state, almost immediately announcing its intention to push forward with plans to build housing for Jewish settlers in E1, an area of the West Bank just to the east [...]

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Palestinians need a one-state solution

by News Sources 09.22.2012

Ghada Karmi writes: It is one year this week since the Palestinians applied for UN membership. President Mahmoud Abbas’s impassioned plea to the UN’s General Assembly for support of the We Palestinian case on 23 September 2011 won him much praise, even from his detractors. But it came to nothing, and no further Palestinian application [...]

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No alternative to a one-state solution

by News Sources 12.24.2011

Avraham Burg, former Speaker of the Knessett, argues that it is time for what remains of an Israeli left to abandon the idea of a two-state solution. Until now, we the seekers of peace, wandered through the world, spreading the hope that there would soon be solutions, while they were busy creating disheartening facts on [...]

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One-state or two-state solution?

by News Sources 10.05.2011
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Tony Judt: Israel is a country fast losing touch with reality

by News Sources 09.15.2011

On July 6, 2010, a month before Tony Judt died and shortly after Israel’s deadly attack on the Mavi Marmara, he was interviewed by Merav Michaeli, a columnist for Ha’aretz. Merav Michaeli: How do you see Israel’s actions in the Flotilla affair? Tony Judt: The characterization that comes to mind is “autistic.” Israel behaved in [...]

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At the UN, the funeral of the two-state solution

by News Sources 09.12.2011

Ilan Pappe writes: We are all going to be invited to the funeral of the two-state solution if and when the UN General Assembly announces the acceptance of Palestine as a member state. The support of the vast majority of the organization’s members would complete a cycle that began in 1967 and which granted the [...]

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Time to ditch the Oslo Accords

by News Sources 07.05.2011

Akiva Eldar writes: In October 1991 he came with U.S. President George H.W. Bush to the Madrid Conference, which squandered the fruits of the Gulf War victory. In September 1993 he celebrated, with U.S. President Bill Clinton, the birth of the battered Oslo Accords. In early 1997 he managed to get Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [...]

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Why the destruction of the Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem could be a good thing for democracy

by News Sources 01.11.2011

Joseph Dana writes that the destruction of the Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem confirms that the two-state solution is finished and that it is time to start fighting for democratic rights for all of the residents of the land under Israeli military rule. Israel and Palestine are under full Israeli military control. Everything going in [...]

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A provocative blueprint for peace in the Mideast

by News Sources 12.28.2010

Ilan Pappé writes: The one-state solution has a troubled history. It began as a soft Zionist concept of Jewish settlers, some of whom were leading intellectuals in their community, who wished to reconcile colonialism and humanism. They were looking for a way that would not require the settlers either to return to their homelands or [...]

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Illan Pappe: Zionism — colonialism, ethnic cleansing and racism

by News Sources 12.05.2010

Illan Pappe addressing the Palestine Solidarity conference in Stuttgart, Germany on November 27, talks about challenging the ideological foundation of the state of Israel. (H/t Pulse.)

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“This conflict is the bone in the throat of the world”

by News Sources 10.06.2010

Phil Weiss, who’s in Israel right now, sat down to talk with Jeff Halper, the Minnesota-born founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, to hear his thoughts on the conflict. Halper would be happy living in a democracy with Palestinians. I asked him why so many Israelis don’t feel that way. “There is a [...]

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Israel and Palestine: A true one-state solution

by Paul Woodward 09.03.2010

Israel should adapt to the 21st century. Is that really a utopian idea? As Tony Judt succinctly distilled the issue a few years ago: “The very idea of a ‘Jewish state’ — a state in which Jews and the Jewish religion have exclusive privileges from which non-Jewish citizens are forever excluded — is rooted in [...]

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The Israeli consensus: Palestinians are inferior

by Paul Woodward 08.31.2010

Update below Israelis might argue about whether the settlements are going to destroy Zionism or help it survive; they differ much less when it comes to their views about Palestinians. Gadi Taub is ringing the now familiar alarm bell that without a swift end to the occupation, Zionism itself will be in jeopardy. Salvation depends [...]

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The democratic state solution

by Paul Woodward 07.24.2010

One-state solution? Two-state solution? Isn’t it time for a democratic state solution? In response to an article in Haaretz on proposals for a one-state solution coming from the Israeli right, Uri Avnery warns that the “attractive leftist vision of the one-state solution may grow up into a rightist monster.” Avnery writes: The regime described here [...]

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A one-state solution from the Israeli right

by Paul Woodward 07.16.2010

Who are the enemies of peace in the Middle East? No list can be comprehensive, but a shortlist should include a few individuals who present themselves as messengers of peace: Barack Obama, George Mitchell, J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami, Tony Blair… In a word, the proponents of the two-state solution have become the enemies of peace. [...]

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One state/two states: rethinking Israel and Palestine

by Paul Woodward 07.15.2010

As liberal Zionists and their allies repeatedly — if unpersuasively — proclaim that the implementation of a two-state solution is now a matter of urgency, the explicit urgency is that this is the only way of ensuring that Israel will thwart the “demographic threat” of Jews becoming a minority in the country they insist they [...]

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A view of life in Gaza

by Paul Woodward 05.03.2010

In a bloggingheads.tv interview, Robert Wright speaks to Bassam Nasser, who works for the Catholic Relief Services in Gaza. Though Wright’s questions tend to be somewhat uninformed and predictable, Nasser’s responses provide a much richer and more nuanced view of life under siege and Israeli occupation than can be gleaned for standard news reports.

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The future of Palestine: righteous Jews vs. the new Afrikaners

by Paul Woodward 05.01.2010

Professor John Mearsheimer, in a speech delivered at The Palestine Center in Washington DC on Thursday said: As anyone who has spent time in the Occupied Territories knows, it is already an incipient apartheid state with separate laws, separate roads, and separate housing for Israelis and Palestinians, who are essentially confined to impoverished enclaves that [...]

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Israel official: Accepting Palestinians into Israel better than two states

by Paul Woodward 04.29.2010

After a recent poll indicated that in increasing numbers Palestinians are losing faith in the two-state solution, remarks by Reuven Rivlin, a senior member of Likud and the Speaker in Israel’s parliament, suggest that a one-state solution may be more likely than most commentators generally imagine. Haaretz reports: Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said Thursday that [...]

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One-state realism

by Paul Woodward 04.01.2010

Dmitry Reider reviews sociologist Yehouda Shenhav’s book The Time of the Green Line. That the notion of a one-state solution may be gaining some traction among diverse Israeli groups will be disturbing news for two-state solution dead-enders like J Street, though in this particular instance, Shenhav’s own vision may itself not garner wide appeal: a [...]

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The two-state illusion

by Paul Woodward 03.25.2010

Mya Guarnieri writes: A drive east of the Green Line suggests the two-state solution is moot. Jewish-only roads slice through the hills. The separation barrier winds through the West Bank, choking Palestinian villages. Settlements are lodged in the land’s throat. Dr. Neve Gordon, author of the book Israel’s Occupation comments, “The one-state solution is already [...]

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East Jerusalem in a Jewish stranglehold

by Paul Woodward 03.11.2010

Isn’t it time that the “two-state solution” be regarded as an object of the imagination no more real than the Tibetan kingdom of Shambala? At the heart of this Middle Eastern fable is another Shangri-La: Jerusalem, capital of the Jewish state and a Palestinian state. In reality, Jews in an unremitting march of expansion are [...]

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A Palestinian state has become impossible

by Paul Woodward 01.19.2010

A Palestinian state has become impossible Sari Nusseibeh: Interview With Le Figaro, January 6, 2010 For the pacifist Palestinian Sari Nusseibeh, Israel will soon have no choice but to integrate its Arab population. Sari Nusseibeh, Dean of al-Quds University in Jerusalem and committed Palestinian intellectual, was the author in 2002 of a peace plan co-written [...]

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Likud MK: Annex West Bank, consider citizenship for Palestinians

by Paul Woodward 12.21.2009

Likud MK: Annex West Bank, consider citizenship for Palestinians By Attila Somfalvi, Ynet, December 20, 2009 Knesset Member Tzipi Hotovely, one of the leading dissenting voices in the Likud faction opposing the policy adopted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Sunday that the territories should be annexed to Israel. “Israeli law should be applied on [...]

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