Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog

The Reut Political-Security team’s current project explores what we perceive to be a global trend advancing Israel’s fundamental political delegitimization. One manifestation of this trend is the growing intensity of mainstream calls to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a One-State Solution, an outcome that would effectively eliminate Israel as a Jewish state.

Voices in favor of a One-State Solution are increasingly heard both within the secular-nationalist camp in the Palestinian territories (see Sari Nusseibeh in Sept. 2008, and more recently Saeb Erekat in Nov. 2009) as well as among Palestinian activists abroad.

Dr. Ghada Karmi – a London-based Palestinian activist, academic, and writer who supports a One-State Solution – recently published an article in the Daily Star following her visit to Ramallah. From her meetings there, she claims a general consensus that the Oslo era – predicated on a negotiated peace settlement with the goal of achieving a Two-State Solution – is over and attests to the growing force of direct calls for a One-State Solution.

In this context, alternative strategies have emerged to fill the vacuum created by those who reject the Oslo process and its underlying logic as fundamentally flawed. Prominent among those are calls for “a campaign of civil resistance against Israeli apartheid” waged with the aim of creating of a unitary state in Israel-Palestine.

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