Beyond the two-state solution : a Jewish political essay

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Beyond the two-state solution : a Jewish political essay

Yehouda Shenhav

Polity, 2012

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Beyond the two state solution

Be-malkodet ha-ḳaṿ ha-yaroḳ

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Originally published under title: Be-malkodet ha-ḳaṿ ha-yaroḳ (Entrapped by the green line)(Tel Aviv : ʻAm ʻoved , 2010)

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For over two decades, many liberals in Israel have attempted, with wide international support, to implement the two-state solution: Israel and Palestine, partitioned on the basis of the Green Line - that is, the line drawn by the 1949 Armistice Agreements that defined Israel's borders until 1967, before Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza following the Six-Day War. By going back to Israel's pre-1967 borders, many people hope to restore Israel to what they imagine was its pristine, pre-occupation character and to provide a solid basis for a long-term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this original and controversial essay, Yehouda Shenhav argues that this vision is an illusion that ignores historical realities and offers no long-term solution. It fails to see that the real problem is that a state was created in most of Palestine in 1948 in which Jews are the privileged ethnic group, at the expense of the Palestinians - who also must live under a constant state of emergency. The issue will not be resolved by the two-state solution, which will do little for the millions of Palestinian refugees and will also require the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Jews living across the Green Line. All these obstacles require a bolder rethinking of the issues: the Green Line should be abandoned and a new type of polity created on the complete territory of mandatory Palestine, with a new set of constitutional arrangements that address the rights of both Palestinians and Jews, including the settlers.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Yehouda Shenhav's Beyond the Two-State Solution, Lama Abu Odeh page vii Acknowledgments xviii Introduction and Overview: The Crisis Facing Zionist Democracy 1 A line drawn with a green pencil 3 Time and space 6 The degeneration of the 1967 paradigm 7 The Zionist-liberal left and the peace accords 15 The liberal new nostalgia 22 Separation 26 The settlers 29 The political rights of the Jews 32 1 The Roots and Consequences of the Liberal New Nostalgia 35 The "no partner" approach 35 Chasing the yellow wind 38 The academic and intellectual discourse 52 2 Was 1967 a Revolutionary Year? 55 The "inevitability" of the 1967 Occupation of Palestinian territories 55 The denial of political theology 60 3 The "Political Anomalies" of the Green Line 68 The refugees of 1948 68 The Arabs of 1948 74 The Jewish settlers 92 The Third Israel and its political economy 106 4 1948 and the Return to the Rights of the Palestinians 116 The Nakba 117 Eradication and denial 122 The present time of the Palestinian Nakba 131 A shared time 140 5 The Return to the Rights of the Jews 146 Post-Westphalian sovereignty 149 The possibility of sharing one space 154 A comment on the role of intellectuals in times of crisis 164 Notes 169 Index 230

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