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R.I.P. One-State Solution; Long Live 3-State Solution?

I come to bury the one-state solution, not praise it. Now that Hamas is laying the groundwork to declare Gaza’s independence from Palestine, it’s easier to be dismissive of arguments for the one-state solution, like…

Pesach Benson
September 12, 2012
12:00 am

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I come to bury the one-state solution, not praise it.

Now that Hamas is laying the groundwork to declare Gaza’s independence from Palestine, it’s easier to be dismissive of arguments for the one-state solution, like this op-ed in The Independent.

Fatah fecklessness, a non-existent peace process, Muslim Brotherhood power in Egypt, and Hamas’ sheer willpower means the three-state solution moots the one-staters. Period.

A bi-national state was an absolute non-starter for the Israeli mainstream. 6 Arguments Against the One-State Solution explains why.

I don’t know if Israel’s better off with an endgame of two or three states.

But the one-state solution is dead. May it rest in peace.

(Image via Flickr/Tammra McCauley)

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Tags: Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, one-state solution, Palestinian statehood, Peace Process, three state solution, two-state solution

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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