Editing One-state solution (section)

====The left====
Since 1999, interest has been renewed in bi-nationalism or a unitary democratic state. That year, Palestinian activist [[Edward Said]] wrote, "[A]fter 50 years of Israeli history, classic Zionism has provided no solution to the Palestinian presence. I therefore see no other way than to begin now to speak about sharing the land that has thrust us together, sharing it in a truly democratic way with equal rights for all citizens."<ref name="Al-Ahram Weekly">[[Edward Said]], "Truth and Reconciliation," ''Al-Ahram Weekly'', 14 January 1999</ref>

In October 2003, New York University scholar [[Tony Judt]] broke ground in his article, "Israel: The Alternative" in the ''[[New York Review of Books]]'', in which he argued that Israel is an "anachronism" in sustaining an ethnic identity for the state and that the two-state solution is fundamentally doomed and unworkable.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Judt |first=Tony |date=23 October 2003 |title=Israel: The Alternative |language=en |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2003/10/23/israel-the-alternative/ |access-date=2023-05-21 |issn=0028-7504}}</ref> The Judt article engendered considerable debate in the UK and the US, and ''The New York Review of Books'' received more than 1,000 letters per week about the essay. A month later, political scientist [[Virginia Tilley]] published "The One-State Solution" in the ''[[London Review of Books]]'' (followed by a book with the same title in 2005), arguing that West Bank settlements had made a two-state solution impossible and that the international community must accept a one-state solution as the ''de facto'' reality.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Tilley |first=Virginia |author-link=Virginia Tilley |date=6 November 2003 |title=The One-State Solution |url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n21/virginia-tilley/the-one-state-solution |journal=London Review of Books |volume=25 |issue=21 |access-date=16 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Virginia Tilley |url=http://www.press.umich.edu/183676/one_state_solution |title=The One-State Solution |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-03449-9 |date=2005}}</ref>

Leftist journalists from Israel, such as [[Haim Hanegbi]] and Daniel Gavron, have called for the public to "face the facts" and accept the binational solution. On the Palestinian side, similar voices have been raised. Then-Israeli prime minister [[Ehud Olmert]] argued, in a 2007 interview with the Israeli daily ''[[Haaretz]]'', that without a two-state agreement Israel would face "a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights" in which case "Israel [would be] finished".<ref name="haaretz2007" />

[[John Mearsheimer]], co-director of the Programme on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, says the binational solution has become inevitable. He further argued that by allowing Israel's settlements to prevent the formation of a Palestinian state, the United States has helped Israel commit "national suicide" since Palestinians will be the majority group in the binational state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews%3D54507 |title=Dead Peace Process Could be "National Suicide" for Israel - IPS ipsnews.net |access-date=6 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217205009/http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54507 |archive-date=17 February 2011 }}</ref>

[[Rashid Khalidi]] wrote in 2011 that the one-state solution was already a reality, in that "there is only one state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, in which there are two or three levels of citizenship or non-citizenship within the borders of that one state that exerts total control." Khalidi further argued that the "peace process" had been extinguished by ongoing Israeli settlement construction, and anyone who still believed it could result in an equitable two-state solution should have their "head examined".<ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/leading-palestinian-intellectual-we-already-have-a-one-state-solution-1.399629 Leading Palestinian intellectual: We already have a one-state solution] (''Haaretz'', 5 Dec. 2011)</ref>

In 2013, professor [[Ian Lustick]] wrote in ''The New York Times'' that the "fantasy" of a two-state solution prevented people from working on solutions that might really work. Lustick argued that people who assume Israel will persist as a Zionist project should consider how quickly the Soviet, Pahlavi Iranian, apartheid South African, Baathist Iraqi and Yugoslavian states unraveled. Lustick concludes that while it may not arise without "painful stalemates", a one-state solution may be a way to eventual Palestinian independence.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lustick |first=Ian S. |date=2013-09-14 |title=Two-State Illusion |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/opinion/sunday/two-state-illusion.html |url-status=live |url-access=registration |access-date=2023-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122164104/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/opinion/sunday/two-state-illusion.html |archive-date=22 January 2016 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>