Shenhav Beyond the Two-State Solution

A Jewish Political Essay
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6294-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

For over two decades, many liberals in Israel have attempted, withwide international support, to implement the two-state solution:Israel and Palestine, partitioned on the basis of the Green Line -that is, the line drawn by the 1949 Armistice Agreements thatdefined Israel's borders until 1967, before Israel occupiedthe West Bank and Gaza following the Six-Day War. By going back toIsrael's pre-1967 borders, many people hope to restore Israelto what they imagine was its pristine, pre-occupation character andto provide a solid basis for a long-term solution to theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict.
In this original and controversial essay, Yehouda Shenhav arguesthat this vision is an illusion that ignores historical realitiesand offers no long-term solution. It fails to see that the realproblem is that a state was created in most of Palestine in 1948 inwhich Jews are the privileged ethnic group, at the expense of thePalestinians - who also must live under a constant state ofemergency. The issue will not be resolved by the two-statesolution, which will do little for the millions of Palestinianrefugees and will also require the uprooting of hundreds ofthousands of Jews living across the Green Line. All these obstaclesrequire a bolder rethinking of the issues: the Green Line should beabandoned and a new type of polity created on the completeterritory of mandatory Palestine, with a new set of constitutionalarrangements that address the rights of both Palestinians and Jews,including the settlers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shenhav, Yehouda

Weitere Mitwirkende

Reider, Dimi

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Yehouda Shenhav's Beyond the Two-State Solution, Lama Abu Odeh page vii
Acknowledgments xviii
Introduction and Overview: The Crisis Facing Zionist Democracy 1
A line drawn with a green pencil 3
Time and space 6
The degeneration of the 1967 paradigm 7
The Zionist-liberal left and the peace accords 15
The liberal new nostalgia 22
Separation 26
The settlers 29
The political rights of the Jews 32
1 The Roots and Consequences of the Liberal New Nostalgia 35
The "no partner" approach 35
Chasing the yellow wind 38
The academic and intellectual discourse 52
2 Was 1967 a Revolutionary Year? 55
The "inevitability" of the 1967 Occupation of Palestinian territories 55
The denial of political theology 60
3 The "Political Anomalies" of the Green Line 68
The refugees of 1948 68
The Arabs of 1948 74
The Jewish settlers 92
The Third Israel and its political economy 106
4 1948 and the Return to the Rights of the Palestinians 116
The Nakba 117
Eradication and denial 122
The present time of the Palestinian Nakba 131
A shared time 140
5 The Return to the Rights of the Jews 146
Post-Westphalian sovereignty 149
The possibility of sharing one space 154
A comment on the role of intellectuals in times of crisis 164
Notes 169
Index 230

Über Autor(innen)

Yehouda Shenhav is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University.
Dimi Reider is an Israeli journalist and blogger, co-founder and contributing editor at +972 Magazine and occasional contributor to the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books and the Daily Beast website.