The document argues that a one-state solution in Israel/Palestine is inevitable rather than a passing fad. It presents population projections showing Palestinians will outnumber Israeli Jews by 2050. The two-state solution is no longer viable due to the interconnected economies and territories that make separation impossible. Support for a binational state is growing as it is the only approach that acknowledges the shared reality on the ground of the two peoples living in the same land.
17. there is no longer a viable connection
between territory and ethnicity.
18. even excluding 1.5 million
Palestinians living in the Gaza
Strip, the trends are
incontestable.
19. even excluding 1.5 million
Palestinians living in the Gaza
Strip, the trends are
incontestable.
20. no partition is ever going to be
acceptable to a majority
of Israelis and Palestinians.
21. no partition is ever going to be
acceptable to a majority
of Israelis and Palestinians.
22. ‘it's five after midnight and
whole week later.’
‘This hard and heavy reality on
the ground is not going to be
reversed by any conventional
peace process’
Thomas Friedman,
The New York Times, 4 June 2008
23. ‘it's five after midnight and
whole week later.’
‘This hard and heavy reality on
the ground is not going to be
reversed by any conventional
peace process’
Thomas Friedman,
The New York Times, 4 June 2008
24. In a negotiated two-
state solution,
the most Palestinians
can hope for would be
an archipelago of
disconnected islands
permanently dominated
by Israel.
25. In a negotiated two-
state solution,
the most Palestinians
can hope for would be
an archipelago of
disconnected islands
permanently dominated
by Israel.
26. Israel uses or diverts 85% of the water
available in the West Bank.
a negotiated two-state solution,
would be ecologically unfeasible.
27. Israel uses or diverts 85% of the water
available in the West Bank.
a negotiated two-state solution,
would be ecologically unfeasible.
30. Israel costs US taxpayers $3 billion
each year, and the Palestinian Authority
costs EU taxpayers $1.8 billion each year.
31. In a negotiated two-state solution,
Palestinians in Israel would form the
same proportion that Albanians did in
Serbia before Kosovo declared
independence with Western support.
32. In a negotiated two-state solution,
Israel would still influence every
aspect of the Palestinian economy
and a Palestinian state would be
neither neither viable nor sovereign.
33. In a negotiated two-state solution,
The lack of economic viability and
limited opportunity for improvement
is likely to encourage frustration.
46. the question is no longer whether
Israel or Palestine will be
binational, but which model to
choose.
47. '...It [...] is the only solution
that seems to take into
account the reality of the two
peoples who basically claim
the same land'
Edward Said
48. 'We aim at a social structure
based on the reality of two
peoples living together...'
Martin Buber
49. 'The very idea is an
unpromising mix of
realism and utopia,
hardly an auspicious
place to begin. But the
alternatives are far,
far worse.’
Tony Judt
59. 90% of original Palestinian
village sites are still vacant
today.
78% of Israeli Jews in Israel live
on 15% of the land.
The remaining part corresponds
with the origins of the majority
of Palestinian refugees.
60. With the return of all Palestinian
refugees the population density
in the whole country would be
the same as South Korea.
61. With the return of all Palestinian
refugees the population density
in the whole country would be
the same as South Korea.
