A Modest Proposal: to solve the Palestine-Israel conflict

What many informed observers of the middle east think may be the only solution that will work. May 15th, 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the declaration of independence by the government of the new state of Israel, which was created by taking over more than half of the area of Palestine, and expelling nearly 750,000 Palestinians from their land. In the intervening years, no “peace plan” has come near to rectifying the injustice done to the Palestinians. So far, the only solutions Israel has even considered have required the 12 million Palestinians in the world to accept a state in approximately 22% of their ancestral land. In this important book, Karl Sabbagh gives a simple account of a solution that is increasingly discussed, as the Two State Solution disappears into the dustbin of history. One democratic state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, with equal rights for all its citizens, would be the fairest solution for all inhabitants of Palestine and Israel. What is more, Sabbagh describes how a major stumbling block in past peace negotiations―the right of return for all Palestinians wherever they are―is suddenly made possible with the setting up of a new enlarged state. May 15th, 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the declaration of independence by the government of the new state of Israel, which was created by taking over more than half of the area of Palestine, and expelling nearly 750,000 Palestinians from their land. In the intervening years, no “peace plan” has come near to rectifying the injustice done to the Palestinians. So far, the only solutions Israel has even considered have required the 12 million Palestinians in the world to accept a state in approximately 22% of their ancestral land. In this important book, Karl Sabbagh gives a simple account of a solution that is increasingly discussed, as the Two State Solution disappears into the dustbin of history. One democratic state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, with equal rights for all its citizens, would be the fairest solution for all inhabitants of Palestine and Israel. What is more, Sabbagh describes how a major stumbling block in past peace negotiations―the right of return for all Palestinians wherever they are―is suddenly made possible with the setting up of a new enlarged state.