Two-state solution

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

The not-so-secret history of Netanyahu’s support for Hamas

From sabotaging Oslo to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict. Even after Oct. 7, argues historian Adam Raz, he's still advancing the same strategy.

By Ghousoon Bisharat November 11, 2024

WEF founder Klaus Schwab (left) on stage at the 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2023. (World Economic Forum/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

At Davos, talk of Palestinian prosperity without freedom is ‘a charade’

An outdated initiative for Israeli and Palestinian executives reflects the business world's unwillingness to tackle the conflict's root causes, say insiders.

By Hebh Jamal March 7, 2023

Young Palestinian men sit by a section of the separation wall in the West Bank city of Abu-Dis, September 29, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Does Israel-Palestine need any ‘state’ solution?

What does it mean to pursue regime change as a path for transformation in Israel-Palestine — and is it enough to bring about justice?

By Diana B. Greenwald July 28, 2021

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Leader of the Joint List Ayman Odeh seen during a protest for coexistence in Tel Aviv, May 15, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ayman Odeh still wants to be Israel’s first Palestinian prime minister

In his first interview following the new government's formation, the Joint List head talks Ra’am’s decision to join the coalition, his steadfast support for two states, and why he thinks he can lead Israel's democratic camp to victory.

By Meron Rapoport July 5, 2021

The Israeli and American flags screened on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City to mark one year since the transfer of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, May 14, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

‘Equality’ is finally breaching Washington’s debate on Israel-Palestine

A policy paper centering equal rights for both peoples marks a radical break from the Israel-centric discourse of mainstream U.S. think tanks.

By Mitchell Plitnick May 6, 2021

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 troops fire tear gas at a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, Jan. 13, 2018. (Flash90)

‘What did the world give us?’ A letter to President Biden from Nabi Saleh

I used to defend the two-state solution as the Palestinians' path to liberation. But after three decades of the Oslo Accords, 'peace' itself is yet to be born.

By Bassem Tamimi January 27, 2021

Demolished structures seen in Cape Town's Marikana community, after the city's Anti-Land Invasion Unit began demolishing structures erected on a plot of land by the Abahlali baseMjondolo shack dwellers movement, January 9, 2014 (Shachaf Polakow/Activestills.org)

The Dispossessed: Palestine’s forgotten lesson from post-apartheid South Africa

Those looking to South Africa as a blueprint for the struggle against Israeli apartheid are doing a disservice by ignoring how racial capitalism has sustained inequality and oppression 30 years on.

By Joseph Dana November 19, 2020

Israelis take part in an annual 8-km march in the Jordan Valley, led by then-Interior Affairs Minister Gideon Saar. February 21, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Liberal Zionism paved the Israeli right’s path to annexation

The world's frantic attempts to stop annexation remain stuck in the liberal Zionist fantasies that kept the occupation running smoothly for decades.

By Yousef Munayyer June 23, 2020

Meeting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Germany, February 16, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

What is stopping Europe from challenging the ‘Deal of the Century?’

The EU's fixation on the two-state solution has detached it from changes in Israeli politics and U.S. policy. It has the clout to act, but does it have the will?

By Robert Swift March 8, 2020

A mural depicting President Donald Trump kissing an Israeli army watchtower on the separation wall in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, August 4, 2017. (Flash90)

Don’t eulogize the two-state solution just yet

Trump’s peace deal may have declared the death of the 'classic' two-state formula, but that doesn't mean we should abandon the idea altogether.

By Said Zeedani February 5, 2020

Israeli security forces take position to protect Jewish visitors as they make their way to visit a Jewish religious site in the West Bank city of Hebron, November 3, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Why are foreign lawmakers aiding Israel’s attacks on Palestinian rights?

Two resolutions passed by the French parliament and U.S. Congress last week have troubling implications for Palestinians and their allies.

By Amjad Iraqi December 13, 2019