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scare tactic that encourages progress toward that two states existing side-by-side in peace. In point
end. of fact there already is one state, as Israel is in
complete control of the entire territory. All that is
Sadly, though, it is unlikely that even the fear of a required is legislation to give the Palestinians full
single state will do the trick. So maybe, instead of citizenship and equal rights with their Israeli
making these enormous efforts to prove that the neighbours. This would certainly be complicated,
one-state solution is impossible, we should but actually simpler than establishing two separate
continue to develop it as an option for the morning states.
after the almost inevitable failure of the current
negotiations. To most people a single Israeli-Palestinian state
certainly appears as a remote and unrealistic
Constructive optimism is unfashionable in these dream, but it is no more remote and unrealistic
cynical times, but it is not a crime. A single than was the prospect of a Jewish state when
Israeli-Palestinian entity is at least as possible as
modern political Zionism was conceived.
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