One State: A Joint Government for Israel-Palestine
A One State Solution: The Joint Territories of Israel-Palestine A model of governance that would promote bipartisan cooperation and self-determination Rationale While the official position of Israel, Palestine and the international community is that a two state solution is the best way to resolve the conflict, history shows it has either been unachievable or the parties are unwilling to find mutually acceptable ways to achieve it. The alternative is a one state, usually federal, solution that has won little support so far, as the Jewish community fears being outnumbered or a dilution of the Jewish nature of their territory, and the Palestinian community do not want to surrender their long battle for nationhood. Extremists on both sides also promote a one state takeover of all the land, with expulsion of the other community. This paper proposes an approach to the one state solution that preserves the autonomy of the two main communities as far as possi