As Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza continues, many observers are asking about its ultimate aim. Israeli officials have pledged to destroy Hamas, but precisely what that entails remains unclear. Advocates for peace speak of the need to end Israel’s decades-long military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and establish a long-term political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But what form could such a political solution take?
We’ve gathered a range of views on that question that have appeared in our pages over more than twenty years, including proposals for a single binational state, a two-state settlement, and a confederal arrangement—and a vision of how activists’ work today can prefigure a free Palestine. Together they provide a broad overview of political resolutions to the conflict.
Palestine should be transformed into a secular state—a constitutional-liberal state, with Arabs and Jews as its national citizens.
- December 1, 2001
In Israel and Palestine, two states are still better than one.
- October 12, 2015
In Palestine and Kurdistan, promising experiments in self-determination draw on the region’s pluralist history.
- January 9, 2023
Palestinian women and feminist organizations are reimagining what liberation can look like beyond national independence.
- December 19, 2022
- December 10, 2021
For a two-state solution to succeed, Israeli Jews must first forswear their righteous narrative of moral superiority.
- February 21, 2019
A Palestinian peacemaker gives up on politics.
- July 1, 2011
Despite large obstacles, Obama is right to push the two-state solution.
- July 1, 2009
