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Bibliography - Background of Palestine
| Source | Theme | Discussion | Web Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Israel and Palestine: The Demise of the Two-State Solution | Issue of two-state solution | - A two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, with a Palestinian state along the lines of the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, the “mandated” settlement for decades, is no longer either a viable outcome. - negotiations has changed at least four times: first, after Gaza’s spin-off in 2006; second, after the Gaza war in 2014; third, because of Israel’s increasing religiosity; and fourth, because of the detritus of the Syrian Civil War, ISIS, and Islamic militancy roiling the post–Arab Spring Middle East. -Surveys showing that Palestinian support of a two-state solution is either underwhelming or no longer exists, | Link |
| Palestine, the UN and the One-State Solution | Issue of one-state solution | - A few thinkers had mused about one-statism prior to 1948, mainstream Jewish and Palestinian opinion was largely uninterested. -In autumn 2011, however, Palestinian leaders did not take their case for a one-state or confederal solution to the United Nations. Instead, they demanded the international seal of approval for the same two-state solution -Critics of the two-state option often do a superb job of showing why Israeli domestic politics make it hard to withdraw Jewish settlements, and then skip directly to the one-state idea | Middle East Policy, Vol. XVIII, No. 4, Winter 2011 |
| The fallacies of one-state solution | Issue of one-state solution | - An independent Palestinian state will not fully redress the plight of the refugees or compensate the loss of property in 1948 and the suffering and dispossession endured over five decades of military occupation. | Link |
| Two states or one? Reappraising the Israeli-Palestinian Impasses | pros and cons of one state and two state solution | -different views of a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: one presents the case for a two-state solution, the other suggests that it is time to look at the idea of a single state with all its variations. -the two major options for a negotiated peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians and to explain the consequences of both for the parties involved and the international community | Link |
| The One-State Solution and the Israeh-Palestinian Conflict: Palestinian Challenges and Prospects | Issues and challenges for one state solution | -Since 2009, a number of major conferences took place across the globe to discuss the prospects and viability of one-state solution. 1- the difficulty of redefining the Palestinian cause in terms of a struggle for equal political rights rather than for a state per se. 2- The second challenge for the one-state movement is to frame the soludon it offers in realistic, rather than Utopian terms. This, in tum, necessitates addressing the present power stmctures and legal frameworks available, both domesdcally and intemationally, which remain favorable to of the two-state solution. 3- building a one-state movement entails idendfying and nurturing the kind of leadership and grassroots acdvism that can mobilize support for this idea among the various Palestinian consdtuencies and examining the extent to which it can impact, if not change, the present Palesdnian leadership | Link |
| The End of a Two-State Settlement? Alternatives and Priorities for Settling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | Issues and challenges | -Popular support for a two-state solution is waning on both sides. While at present alternative one-state or confederate models have even slimmer chances of being realized, Germany and the EU should nevertheless explore the creative and con_x0002_structive aspects of these models, which would enable the two sides to maintain their national identities as well as realize their individual and collective rights. -Their priority, however, should be to alter the cost-benefit calculation of the parties to the conflict, so as to generate the political will for bringing about a settlement at all. | Link |
| Beyond the Two-State Solution by Jonathan Kuttab | Issues of Two-State solution and towards Hydbrid State | - the proposed compromise (two-state solution) no longer possible, even if Israel and the Palestinians were fully committed to it. - looking for other alternative which is a hydbrid state solution (which fit with our vision, Palestine state for All) | Link |
| Israel and the Palestinians: From the Two-State Solution to Five Failed “States” by Anthony H. Cordesman | Issues of Two-State solution to 'No Solution' | - It provides a detailed timeline of how the divisions between Israel and the Palestinians led to war. - It analyzes the forces that have turned the hope for a “two-state solution” into five key areas of Israeli-Palestinian tension and conflict. - It shows that these divisions have become the equivalent of five failed “states”. | Link |
| Peace to Prosperity Plan as a one State Solution | One State Solution | - This paper argues that the Peace to Prosperity (P&P) plan is designed to a one-state solution. - Through a comparison between the Oslo Accords and the P&P plan we can observe the shift from the two state notions to the one state concept with a system of apartheid. - The article also attempts to suggest improvements on the plan to be more suitable for both parties under a one state solution, namely, to include a new constitution. | Link |