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Monday, May 28, 2012

A one-state solution for Israel and Palestine: any takers?, Islam and the West, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam and the West
A one-state solution for Israel and Palestine: any takers?
By Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

Nevertheless, many are now advocating a single-state solution. Four of the most authoritative proponents of the idea gathered recently for a public debate, the first in a planned series on Israel-Palestine, hosted by two voluntary campus groups at the University of Southampton, namely Amnesty International and the One State Group. With Dr. Oren Ben-Dor in the chair, Professor Ilan Pappe, who has been called Israel’s bravest historian and is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, explored the issues in the company of Dr. Ghada Karmi, who — like Prof. Pappe — is at the University of Exeter, Professor Smadar Lavie of Macalester College, Minnesota, and Dr. Nur Masalha of St. Mary’s College in the University of Surrey.

All the arguments were founded on the idea of justice as central to the ending of violence; this, as Dr. Ben-Dor said, would involve redeeming past injustices without perpetrating new ones, and require constitutional and other institutions. The delivery of justice, Dr. Karmi noted, would require conditions in which Palestinians could lead normal lives in their homeland, and could be reunited with their displaced kith and

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