Nadia Hijab files a report on the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference in her article "The growing belief in a one-state solution." Hijab was a presenter at the conference and does not consider herself an advocate of one state per se, but she admits the conference has convinced her to reconsider:
The discussion of concrete steps challenged my agnosticism. So did the
passion and creativity of the debate. The best vision of the one-state
solution does make the alternative debates "barren," as Ghada Karmi put it.Think about it. Who's defending the two-state option today? The
Palestinian Authority, its case ever weaker against the decades-long
clanging of Israeli bulldozers as they colonize Palestinian land and
demolish homes.And the realists in the United States, Europe, and Israel, whose core
argument is that a Palestinian state is the only way to save a majority
Jewish state – an argument that does not inspire.Those who support a two-state solution must do better if they want to
hang on to hearts and minds. For, make no mistake, as American
politicians are fond of saying, the adherents of the one-state movement
share a faith. And fear and brute force – whether exercised by Israel,
America, or the Palestinian Authority – are no match for faith.
