Clinton: U.N. Palestine Vote ‘Unfortunate And Counterproductive’

[Douglas Carpenter]

75. those who make the two-state solution impossible are making the single state solution inevitable

Israel and the Palestinians are sinking together into the mud of the "one state." The question is no longer whether it will be binational, but which model to choose.


By Meron Benvenisti (former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem)|

And there's a fourth model, which can be called "undeclared binationalism." It's a unitary state controlled by one dominant national group, which leaves the other national group disenfranchised and subject to laws "for natives only," which for the purposes of respectability and international law are known as laws of "belligerent occupation." The convenience of this model of binationalism is that it can be applied over a long period of time, meanwhile debating the threat of the "one state" and the advantages of the "two states," without doing a thing. That's the situation nowadays. But the process is apparently inevitable. Israel and the Palestinians are sinking together into the mud of the "one state." The question is no longer whether it will be binational, but which model to choose.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/which-kind-of-binational-state-1.106273