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Israel’s One-State Reality | Foreign Affairs

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power in Israel with a narrow, extreme right-wing coalition has shattered even the illusion of a two-state solution. Members of his new government have not been shy about stating their views on what Israel is and what it should be in all the territories it controls: a Greater Israel defined not just as a Jewish state but one in which the law enshrines Jewish supremacy over all Palestinians who remain there. As a result, it is no longer possible to avoid confronting a one-state reality. Israel’s radical new government did not create this reality but rather made it impossible to deny. The temporary status of “occupation” of the Palestinian territories is now a permanent condition in which one state ruled by one group of people rules over another group of people. The promise of a two-state solution made sense as an alternative future in the years around the 1993 Oslo accords, when there were constituencies for compromise on both the Israeli an

Israel’s One-State Reality It’s Time to Give Up on the Two-State Solution Michael Barnett , Nathan Brown , Marc Lynch , and Shibley Telhami May/June 2023 Published on April 14, 2023 Guillem Casasus Listen Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in . Share & Download Print Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in . Save Sign in and save to read later Close Share Israel’s One-State Reality It’s Time to Give Up on the Two-State Solution Michael Barnett , Nathan Brown , Marc Lynch , and Shibley Telhami May/June 2023 Share in email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Copy Link Copied

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