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An Israeli Border Police officer is seen in front of Israel's separation barrier in Abu Dis, West Bank. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

A more sensible two-state vision for Israel and Palestine

Political separation doesn’t necessitate geographic and demographic separation. By Said Zeedani Just a few weeks into the al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, I was enticed by and attracted to a unique idea for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which continues to entice me 18 years later. The contours of the idea — acceptance of the two-state solution,…

By +972 Magazine July 18, 2018

Houses of Parliament, London, UK (photo: Ramón Cutanda López / (CC BY 2.0)

Labour MPs: Vote yes on Palestinian statehood

In an appeal that demonstrates the complete bankruptcy of the peace camp, the Israeli Labor Party is calling on its British counterparts to oppose the motion on Palestinian statehood Monday, ‘in the name of peace.’ Netanyahu couldn’t have put it better. The British Parliament will vote Monday on a motion supporting the Palestinian Authority’s request…

By Noam Sheizaf October 12, 2014

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Two state vs. one state debate is a waste of time, political energy

Your favorite pastime is a part of the occupation. Arguably the most popular political debate on Israel/Palestine is the one taking place between supporters of the two-state solution and those who support a one-state idea. A piece by Professor Ian Lustick in the New York Times won a lot of attention recently, and it’s not…

By Noam Sheizaf September 20, 2013

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Leader of the National Religious Party ("Jewish Home") Naftali Bennett (photo: Yotam Ronen / activestills.org)

One by one, Israel’s coalition members abandon two-state rhetoric

More and more, members of Israel’s ruling parties are matching their public statements to the reality they are implementing every minute on the ground: Israel’s opposition to the establishment of a viable Palestinian state and a negotiated two-state solution to the conflict. Economy Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett is the latest MK to join a…

By Mairav Zonszein June 17, 2013

The separation wall in Walajah (Photo: Haggai Matar)

Poll: 23% of Jewish Israelis support apartheid, 13% support status quo

Survey finds that majority of Jewish Israelis think the country should unilaterally determine its borders along the route of the West Bank separation barrier. One-third support either annexing the West Bank without giving Palestinians civil rights, or perpetuating the status quo — both of which are apartheid. According to a poll* released Sunday, a majority…

By Mairav Zonszein April 14, 2013

Rabbi Dov Lipman, at Beit Shemesh rally against Haredi extremism, December 2011 (Photo: Dahlia Scheindlin)

Between a rock and a Haredi place: profile of a liberal rabbi

Rabbi Dov Lipman is soft-spoken and not even 41 years old, but has seen his share of action on the battleground of Israeli society. He’s taken verbal beatings and sustained physical injury. He’s won praise and publicity, and drawn fire too, for his tireless struggle against religious extremists literally next door. Lipman is a Haredi-ordained…

By Dahlia Scheindlin August 23, 2012

Bloggingheads: The U.S. election and the fate of Israel-Palestine

Mitt Romney sparked controversy during his visit to Jerusalem last week, thanks to a series of comments he made about Jews and Palestinians. Naturally, his comments about Palestinian culture being inferior to Jewish culture, and God’s unfavorable bias against Palestinians, angered many Palestinians, who are worried that Romney could win the election. However, does that make…

By Aziz Abu Sarah August 7, 2012

The one-state reality vs. the two-state idea

This post was originally published on Peter Beinart’s Open Zion blog (@ The Daily Beast), as part of a debate regarding the fate of the two-state solution. This piece by Jerry Haber, on the same issue, is worth reading as well. And if you have the stomach for it, here is rightwing MK Danny Danon (Likud),…

By Noam Sheizaf May 17, 2012

A State is Born: Israel may find new friend in South Sudan

South Sudan joins the family of nations amid rising tensions with its neighbor to the north. While Israel has diplomatic and military interests in the new country, it is treading carefully for now It is not often one gets to start a sentence about the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with the words “to his credit.”…

By Roee Ruttenberg July 8, 2011

Introducing the no-state solution

When I was growing up, my father served as one of Yitzhak Rabin’s chief advisers. This being the case, I learned to think of the two-state-solution to the question of this country as unquestionable. In the early 1980’s the discourse common around the house involved “returning the territories” to Jordan and Egypt, of which Israel…

By Yuval Ben-Ami December 19, 2010

Art on the Separation Barrier in Bethlehem (photo: James Chen)

A response to Lara Friedman: we must discuss one state now

Lara Friedman, director of policy and government relations for Americans for Peace Now (APN), writes in the forward against even talking about the one-state solution: Anti-Zionists and some post-Zionists imagine a Palestinian-majority, secular, democratic state; some Israeli right-wingers envision Israel annexing the West Bank, using ploys to disenfranchise its Palestinian residents and finally getting rid…

By Noam Sheizaf August 20, 2010

The Israeli Right going one-state?

Haaretz published my report on the growing support for what seems like a one-state solution in the Israeli Right. “The prospects of the negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas do not look promising. President Obama undoubtedly thinks otherwise, but if Abbas speaks for anyone, it’s barely half the Palestinians. The chances of anything good coming of this…

By Noam Sheizaf July 18, 2010