Almost five years ago I posted an article on this topic. My comment at the time: …with the completion of the “security fence” Israel will effectively have annexed a good part of the West Bank and Gaza and will maintain de facto control of the rest for years to come. The Palestinian struggle will then shift [...]
One State Two
From the article leader: Late last year, the award-winning novelist Linda Grant moved to Tel Aviv for four months. How could people bear to live there, she wanted to know, amid daily reports of violence, corruption and despair? What she discovered was a society in a state of profound denial – and the horrifying possibility [...]
Michael Neumann argues that the best solution is not one state or two, but one state and two: “Does this mean the single-state solution should be dismissed out of hand? No; it simply means that solution is a very long-term project, depending on basic shifts in the Middle East balance of power as well as, [...]
In my discussions with Asaf, we often say that the extreme right and extreme left agree on their analysis. They just differ on their solution. But that’s changing as well. As Meron Benvenisti indicates here many on the left are beginning to agree on the solution as well – one state from the Mediteranean sea [...]
This recent article by Gideon Levy inspired me to write something about the “demographic threat” and the “right of return.” Before I could put pen to paper (or rather fingers to keybord), Boaz Evron wrote this, which says unequivically, what Levy only dares hint at: For Israel to survive and prosper as a Jewish homeland [...]
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