Editing One-state solution (section)

==One-state debate since 2009==
A poll conducted in 2010 by [[Israel Democracy Institute]] suggested that 15% of right-wing Jewish Israelis and 16% of left-wing Jewish Israelis support a binational state solution over a two states solution based on [[Green Line (Israel)|1967 lines]]. According to the same poll, 66% of Jewish Israelis preferred the two-state solution.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peaceindex.org/indexMonthEng.aspx?mark1=&mark2=&num=52|title=The Peace Index: March 2010|publisher=The Israel Democracy Institute|access-date=4 February 2012}}</ref>

Some Israeli government spokespeople have also proposed that Palestinian-majority areas of Israel, such as the area around [[Umm el-Fahm]], be annexed to the new Palestinian state. As this measure would cut these areas off permanently from the rest of Israel's territory, including the coastal cities and other Palestinian towns and villages, Palestinians view this with alarm. Many Palestinian citizens of Israel would therefore prefer a one-state solution because this would allow them to sustain their Israeli citizenship.<ref name=nchala2006>{{cite web |url=http://reut-institute.org/data/uploads/PDFVer/ENG.pdf |title=Palestinians in Israel |year=2006 |work=The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel|publisher=Reut Institute|access-date=25 January 2011}}</ref>

Some Israeli Jews and Palestinians who oppose a one-state solution have nevertheless come to believe that it may come to pass.<ref name=reut2004/> Israeli Prime Minister Olmert argued, in a 2007 interview with the Israeli daily ''[[Ha'aretz]]'', 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>{{cite web |last=Ravid |first=Barak |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/olmert-to-haaretz-two-state-solution-or-israel-is-done-for-1.234201 |title=Olmert to Haaretz: Two-state solution, or Israel is done for |website=Haaretz |date=2007-11-29 |access-date=2017-06-06 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606210531/http://www.haaretz.com/news/olmert-to-haaretz-two-state-solution-or-israel-is-done-for-1.234201 |archive-date=2017-06-06 }}</ref> This echoes comments made in 2004 by Palestinian Prime Minister [[Ahmed Qurei]], who said that if Israel failed to conclude an agreement with the Palestinians, that the Palestinians would pursue a single, bi-national state.<ref name=bbc2004>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3381493.stm |work=BBC News |title=Palestinian PM's 'one state' call |date=9 January 2004 |access-date=5 May 2010}}</ref> In November 2009, Palestinian negotiator [[Saeb Erekat]] proposed the adoption of the one-state solution if Israel did not halt settlement construction: "[Palestinians must] refocus their attention on the one-state solution where Muslims, Christians and Jews can live as equals. ... It is very serious. This is the moment of truth for us."<ref name=saeb2009>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL4593611 |author=Mohammed Assadi |title=Palestinian state may have to be abandoned – Erekat|work=Reuters|access-date=25 January 2011 |date=4 November 2009}}</ref>

Support for a one-state solution is increasing{{when|date=March 2022}} as Palestinians, frustrated by lack of progress in negotiations aiming to establish the two-state solution, increasingly see the one-state solution as an alternative way forward.<ref name="SHABI1">{{Cite news |last=Shabi |first=Rachel |date=2012-10-23 |title=The death of the Israel-Palestine two-state solution brings fresh hope |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/23/israel-palestine-two-state-solution |access-date=2023-05-21 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="POORT1">{{Cite web |last=Poort |first=David |date=26 January 2011 |title=The threat of a one-state solution |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2011/1/26/the-threat-of-a-one-state-solution |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref> In 2016, then-U.S. Vice President [[Joe Biden]] said that due to expanding [[Israeli settlers|settlements]], an eventual "one-state reality" was the most likely outcome.<ref name=wp-20160419>{{cite web |author1=Josh Lederman |title=Biden: 'Overwhelming frustration' with Israeli gov't |url=https://apnews.com/united-states-government-e5c04516ee3c40d9800768573e2f7a8e |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=14 May 2024 |date=19 April 2016}}</ref>

In a 2021 survey of experts on the Middle East, 59 percent described the current situation as "a one-state reality akin to [[apartheid]]" and an additional 7 percent "one-state reality with inequality, but not akin to apartheid". If a two-state solution is not achieved, 77 percent predict "a one-state reality akin to apartheid" and 17 percent "one-state reality with increasing inequality, but not akin to apartheid"; just 1 percent think a binational state with equal rights for all inhabitants is likely. 52 percent say that the two-state solution is no longer possible.<ref name=brookings>{{cite news |last=Telhami |first=Marc Lynch and Shibley |title=Biden says he will listen to experts. Here is what scholars of the Middle East think. |url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/02/19/biden-says-he-will-listen-to-experts-here-is-what-scholars-of-the-middle-east-think/ |access-date=19 March 2022 |work=Brookings |date=19 February 2021}}</ref>