[Marxism] One State Solution Gains Supporters

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By Osama al-Sharif - Amman 
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But if not a two-state solution, then what? The alternative, some believe, is 
 simple and straightforward: A binational state combining Israel and 
Palestine,  in effect a new state altogether. Last week Ghada Karmi, a 
respected 
Palestinian  intellectual, wrote an opinion piece in The Guardian Weekly in 
which 
she  enunciated her case for a one-state solution, adding that it is now part 
of  mainstream discourse. She declared that âthe peace process predicated on 
the  two-state solution is stagnant, and a momentum has started toward the 
obvious  alternative, a unitary state.â  
She is not the first Palestinian activist to promote the concept. The late  
Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said suggested in 1999 that 
âclassical 
 Zionism has provided no solution to Palestinian presence... the peace 
process  has in fact put off the real reconciliation that must occur if the 
hundred-year  war between Zionism and the Palestinian people is to end. Oslo 
set the 
stage for  separation, but real peace can come only with a binational 
Israeli-Palestinian  state.â 
In addition, Israeli and Jewish writers and politicians have also called for  
a one-state solution for the conflict. While the concept is rejected by a  
majority of Israelis, a recent poll suggested that up to a quarter of  
Palestinians now support it. It is understandable why more Palestinians will  
probably 
lean in favor of a single binational state in the near future. 
Palestinian activist Ali Abunimah contends that ordinary Palestinians are  
significantly more supportive of the one-state solution than are Palestinian  
intellectuals. 
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