One state solution

'One-state solution': Voices in favor of binational state for Israelis, Palestinians growing

Prominent Israeli voices, on both the Right and the Left of the political spectrum, are in favor – but with vastly different aspirations for what such a unified country would look like.

Israel and Palestine flags on geopolitical Map.
PLO CHAIRMAN Yasser Arafat addresses the UN General Assembly in Geneva in 1988.

Israel cannot ignore global shifts on Palestinian statehood - opinion

 FOREIGN MINISTER Gideon Sa’ar addresses a meeting of his parliamentary faction last month. He has said that a Palestinian state would be ‘a cancer in the heart of our homeland.’

Those in the US who support a two-state solution, are no longer in line with Israel - opinion

 UN SECRETARY-GENERAL António Guterres speaks as he visits the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in October 2023, after the Hamas attack on Israel. Western public opinion was shaped to believe that ‘October 7 did not happen in a vacuum,’ to use Guterres’s words, says the writer.

Paving the path to peace: Pronouncing the two-state solution dead - opinion


Czech parliament Speaker questions two-state paradigm as cabinet quarrels

Vondráček concluded that support for Israel should not be based on a two-state solution.

Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, Radek Vondracek, attends and audience with Pope Francis on occasion of 1150th anniversary of the death of St. Cyril, at the Vatican March 22, 2019.

The next generation of peace advocates face an even more difficult task

Encountering Peace: The next generation of Israelis and Palestinians will have to try to figure out how to make a single state, from the River to the Sea, of all of its citizens.

HOPE FOR the next generation.

Facing facts: we must learn to live together and live separately

The economies of Israel and the Palestinians are intertwined as is the cheek-by-jowl proximity of neighborhoods, villages and settlements.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses Arab journalists in Ramallah on July 3

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham: One-state solution is dangerous

“If you believe in a democratic secure Israel [and] you absorb the Palestinians, they will eventually demographically outvote the Jewish state. So that does not work."

Lindsey Graham, United States Senator (R) from South Carolinaat the 7th Annual JPost Conference

Dutch foreign minister defends diplomat promoting ‘one-state solution’

In 2014, Eijpe shared a plea on Facebook to “immediately boycott the state of Israel.” The Dutch Foreign Ministry is opposed to such boycotts.

Dutch flag in field 370

Preserving Israel’s Jewish character

The hoary two-state solution assumes that there will be a Muslim Arab state ethnically cleansed of Jews and then there will be another state but comprised of whom?

Aharon Barak.

Tibi: 'Ahmad, not Muhammad' to be next prime minister

Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi was responding to a reported statement by U.S. President Donald Trump

MK Ahmad Tibi (Joint List)  at the Knesset during a discussion on the Nation-State Law August 8, 2018.

J Street cancels endorsement from House candidate for 'one state solution'

If elected to the House in November as is expected — Tlaib will become the first Palestinian — American woman ever to sit in the chamber.

Rashida Tlaib on interview about Arab-Israeli Conflict (August 13, 2018).

Viewpoint: Zionism and the one-state idea

Shimon Peres and Menachem Begin chat at the inaugural session of the 10th Knesset in 1981

EU: Israeli settlement building entrenching one-state reality

“These developments, alongside a number of other related actions taken in recent months, seriously undermine the viability of a negotiated two-state solution and the prospects for a lasting peace."

A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank