description: “A clear, trenchant book on a topic of enormousimportance... Overall this is a courageous plungeinto boiling waters. If it helps propel forward adebate that has hardly begun in this country it willhave performed a signal scholarly and politicalfunction.”—Tony Judt, New York University“. . . a pioneering text. . . . [A]s such it will take prideof place in a brewing debate.”—Gary Sussman, Tel Aviv UniversityThe One-State Solution demonstrates that Israelisettlements have already encroached on the occupiedterritory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the extentthat any Palestinian state in those areas is unviable.It reveals the irreversible impact of Israel’s settlementgrid by summarizing its physical, demographic, . nancial,and political dimensions. Virginia Tilley explainswhy we should assume that this grid will not be withdrawn—or its expansion reversed—by reviewing therole of the key political the Israeli government,the United States, the Arab states, and the EuropeanUnion. Finally, the book addresses the daunting obstaclesto a one-state solution—including major revisionof the Zionist dream but also Palestinian and otherregional resistance—and offers some ideas about howthose obstacles might be addressed.
language: English
title: The One-state Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock
titlecomplete: The One-state Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis)
genres: Politics
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Manchester University Press