Why I don’t think it works — and what might.
🤦🤦🤦 The more I think about it, the more it seems like people who insist that separation into two bordering states* is an effective solution for two warring populations, but have convinced themselves that ending the war and integrating the populations into one shared state is a pipedream doomed to fail, are either delusional or … Read more
As more and more countries recognize a state with no contiguous territory, no means of self-defense, no independent monetary policy or funding, and no active popular legislature, I would like to renew my personal invitation to build a shared society in a single state, built on the infrastructure of the existing Israeli state, that grants … Read more
Thinking pragmatically about the future of the Land… Can an additional state, without any state institutions or assets or economy or territorial continuity or independence, really make it? And what purpose would it serve, if it did actually work and function, that wouldn’t be realized in an inclusive Israeli/Palestinian society?
This damned war is continuing not because of diplomatic cover and arms for Israel but for Hamas. It would be over in a day if Hamas was not still being propped up as an active threat (!) to Israel seven months into Hamas’s failed war (waged in violation of local ceasefire agreements and of international … Read more