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One State Solution

What Exactly Do We Want from the River to the Sea?
By Alain Alameddine Banning the expression ‘from the river to the sea’ on the grounds of it being genocidal makes, to say the least, quite a number of assumptions. It is not hard to […]

Did Norway Just Champion the One-State Solution in Palestine, Israel?
By Romana Rubeo Though Western diplomats often steer away from the conversation on one state in Palestine and Israel, Norway’s top diplomat has just said the seemingly unthinkable. One of the biggest obstacles in […]

One Democratic State: Palestine, Israel, or Palestine-Israel?
By Alain Alameddine Much like other colonial endeavors, Zionism has largely succeeded at making the colonization of Palestine about the colonizers rather than the colonized. Thanks to the evident failure of the two-state proposal […]

Historic Drop in Support for Two-State Solution among Palestinians, Israelis
This is the largest drop in the support for the two-state solution among Palestinians since 2016. Support for a two-state solution has dropped amongst Palestinians and Israelis, amid an increasingly deteriorating security situation in the […]

Unanswered Questions after ‘Balfour Project’ Cancels Event with Ghada Karmi and Lowkey
By Palestine Chronicle Staff A webinar hosting renowned Palestinian author and intellectual Ghada Karmi and famed British-Iraqi musician and broadcaster, Lowkey, was canceled on May 10 by the UK-based charity The Balfour Project. Karmi […]

WATCH: Full Palestine Chronicle Interview with Professor Noam Chomsky
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestine Chronicle editors Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo hosted a special guest on Thursday, June 16, IMT Professor and world-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky. The wide-ranging interview examined numerous topics. Though […]

Masar Badil Founded in Madrid, Sao Paolo and Beirut
By Blake Alcott Masar Badil (Alternative Path) is a new movement – as yet a loose group of activists and activist groups rather than a membership organization – working for the liberation of all of […]

‘From the River to the Sea’: Really?
By Blake Alcott For almost 20 years the Cambridge branch of the UK Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has run a stall every Saturday on Market Square to distribute information about Palestine, sell olive oil, spices, […]

WATCH: Palestine Chronicle Hosts: Ilan Pappe and Awad Abdelfattah on ‘One Democratic State’
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Renowned historian, Professor Ilan Pappe and respected political analyst and leader Awad Abdelfattah speak to Palestine Chronicle TV about the One Democratic State Campaign and their shared vision for a […]

Moving Past Apartheid: One-State is not Ideal Justice, but It is Just and Possible
By Ramzy Baroud Once again, Europe’s top diplomats expressed their ‘deep concern’ regarding Israel’s ongoing illegal settlement expansion, again evoking the maxim that Israeli actions “threaten the viability of the two-state solution”. This position […]

Calling on International Civil Society to Join Them: Palestinians, Israelis Call for a Single Democratic State
By One Democratic State Campaign Editor’s Note: The following statement was issued by the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) on November 15, 2020. The ODSC is one the largest initiatives of Palestinians and Israelis championing […]

Apartheid or One State: Has Jordan Broken a Political Taboo?
By Ramzy Baroud What will it take for the idea of a two-state solution, which was hardly practical to begin with, to be completely abandoned? Every realistic assessment of the situation on the ground […]

Jordan May Support ‘One-State Democratic Solution’
Jordan’s prime minister told The Guardian on Tuesday that his country would look “positively” at a “one-state democratic solution” to the Israel-Palestine conflict, suggesting the Hashemite kingdom may support a one-state solution as Israel pushes […]

Beinart Cracks Zionism’s Apartheid Foundation
By Iqbal Jassat Is it a case of much ado about nothing or does it pose a significant challenge to undermine key components of Israel’s multi-layered myths? From the heated backlash unleashed following an essay […]

Israel’s One-state Reality is Facilitated by the International Community
By Ramona Wadi For several years, the call for a one-state solution has been part of the alternatives to the two-state paradigm which forms the backdrop to international diplomacy on Palestine. “One state” is generally […]

With Friends Like These…
By Blake Alcott It’s nice that a group of 127 British politicians has discovered the as-yet unused tool for pressuring Israel: sanctions, the ‘S’ in Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). They wrote a letter to […]

The Day After: What if Israel Annexes the West Bank?
By Ramzy Baroud Calls for the annexation of the Occupied West Bank are gaining momentum in both Tel Aviv and Washington. But Israel and its American allies should be careful what they wish for. […]

What is ‘the Palestinian Cause’?
By Blake Alcott At a recent Palestine conference in Istanbul, many speakers talked of ‘the Palestinian cause’. Many also spoke of ‘solidarity’ with the Palestinians. What do these words mean? Although I’ve been active in […]

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel – Book Review
By Nicholas V. Barney There is a memorable passage from satirist Evelyn Waugh’s perhaps purposively unremembered political masterpiece “Black Mischief” (1932), in which Basil Seal, the chief Anglo architect of a modernization program in the […]

Growing US Public Support for One State Shared Equally by Israelis and Palestinians Falls on Deaf Ears
By Jonathan Cook Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to be having a transformative effect – and in ways that will please neither of them. The […]

Trump: if One-State Policy Prevails, Israel PM ‘Will Be Called Mohammed’ (VIDEOS)
US President Donald Trump has said that Israel’s Prime Minister “in a few years will be called Mohammed” if a one-state policy prevails in Israel-Palestine. Trump allegedly made the comments to Jordan’s King Abdullah while […]

One State or Two States, Israel Has the Upper Hand in Manipulating Palestinian Compromise
By Ramona Wadi Following the Middle East Quartet’s statement in 2016 which effectively rendered the two-state compromise obsolete, the international community, including representatives of the Quartet, have failed to come up with other strategies. International […]