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.

2. Is the One State solution a Fad?

3. or are we at a critical juncture?

4. Welcome to the Revolution

13. a single

14. Palestinians Israeli Jews

15. Palestinians Israeli Jews
12000
9000
6000
3000
0
2000 2010 2020 2050

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.

28. the status quo is
not sustainable.

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.

34. so what

35. so what

36. One State isn’t a
fad

37. One State isn’t a
fad

38. it’s a fundamental
shift in the way

39. It’s not about separation

40. It’s not about separation
but finding the way to live
together.

42. One State:

43. the question is not
whether there will be
a One-State solution,

45. One State:

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

50. Hebrew and Arabic will still be
the two main national languages.

51. All citizens would be able to
pursue their economic rights in
one economy.

52. Settlements
would not have to
be dismantled.

53. All citizens would be free to work
and take up residence anywhere
in the country.

54. Jerusalem is not different from
other mixed cities like Haifa,
Jaffa or Ramleh.

55. Albert Einstein
believed in it and
insisted that ‘no
problem can be solved
from the same level of
consciousness that
created it.’

56. even the return of refugees is feasible.

57. even the return of refugees is feasible.

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.

62. One State isn’t a fad,
it is a win-win for
everyone.

63. No one will leave the country.

64. Israelis and Palestinians share
the same land and the same
natural resources.

65. They share the same aquifers, the
same highway network, the same
electricity grid and the same
borders.

66. They are inextricably mixed
throughout the country living in
the same space and relying on
each other in many different ways.

67. Support for one state is hardly a radical idea.

68. It is simply the recognition of a
uncomfortable reality.

70. is it unique?

73. Still think one state is a fad?

74. Welcome to the reality

75. Welcome to the reality

76. Are you ready?

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