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Thousands of Palestinians pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City, marking the Muslim holiday of Eid Al Adha. Oct. 4, 2014. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Is Israeli-Palestinian confederation all it’s hyped up to be?

While it is fair to critique the viability of a two-state or one-state solution, the ambitious confederation model risks failing for the same reasons.

By Shira Efron and Evan Gottesman May 3, 2021

J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami speaking at the 2019 national conference in Washington, D.C., on October 27, 2019. (Gili Getz)

J Street finally wants the US to think beyond the two-state solution

With a one-state reality deepening in Israel-Palestine, the lobby group is shifting away from the model it has championed for years. Now it is turning to a new solution: confederation.

By Arianna Skibell April 16, 2021

Israeli security forces guard as Jewish Israelis tour the Palestinian side of the old city market in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 15, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Confederation can’t answer the most important issue in Israel-Palestine

Any framework that comes to replace the two-state solution must aspire toward decolonization, and accept that Zionism and full civic equality are irreconcilable. Changes on the ground over the past decade have allowed Israel to consolidate its rule between the river and the sea. While the final nail in the two-state coffin was hammered long…

By Henriette Chacar July 2, 2019

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PODCAST: The other two-state solution

The two-state solution may be dead but that doesn’t mean the dream of a Palestinian state is too. The +972 Podcast takes a deep dive into confederation. Listen here: iTunes/Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify Is the two-state solution really dead? Who knows if it ever will be. But an equitable one-state solution isn’t a given, and…

By +972 Magazine June 14, 2019

An Israeli Border Police officer is seen in front of Israel's separation barrier in Abu Dis, West Bank. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

A more sensible two-state vision for Israel and Palestine

Political separation doesn’t necessitate geographic and demographic separation. By Said Zeedani Just a few weeks into the al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, I was enticed by and attracted to a unique idea for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which continues to entice me 18 years later. The contours of the idea — acceptance of the two-state solution,…

By +972 Magazine July 18, 2018

‘For many young American Jews, the Trump-Bibi axis is the enemy’

Bradley Burston insists that his views about Israel haven't changed since he moved here in the 1970s. It's Israel which has changed. 'I would like to have two states. But hundreds of thousands of Israelis said ‘you can’t have it,’ and they run the country,' he says in a wide-ranging interview about Israel, the Nakba, and the changing face of American Jewry.

By Edo Konrad July 2, 2018

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Brexit and the Israel-Palestine problem

More and more people are stuck with each other in this world, even as rejectionists pretend — if only for a minute or two — that we’re not. I wasn’t much of a political junky as a kid, and I was certainly no wunderkind at foreign relations. The Cold War was a fact of life, as solid…

By Dahlia Scheindlin June 28, 2016

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Are Israelis ready for a confederated two-state solution?

A +972 poll puts the details of one such plan to the Israeli public, and finds that a majority supports the general approach. The new year begins with speculation about the possibility of a change of government in Israel. But it is not at all clear that even a more centrist government can advance a…

By Dahlia Scheindlin January 4, 2015