Malley: In defense of two states
My column this week is on the “death” of the two-state solution, and the odd consensus forming on the right and left margins of the debate.
The article referenced a piece by Robert Malley and Hussein Agah in the Times, titled “The Two State Solution Won’t Solve Anything.” Many read their oped as a call for a “one-state” solution, Jewish and Palestinian. I wasn’t sure that’s what they were after. Malley tries to clarify in the Huffington Post:
Q: Are you arguing in favor of a one-state solution?
MALLEY: Absolutely not. Our work over the years has consistently been about the two state solution. This article is no exception, as the passages you cite illustrate. Far from arguing against the two-state solution, we are seeking to understand why, despite years of efforts, attempts to achieve it have failed. And we are suggesting that this has less to do with disagreements over the precise territorial boundaries than with something deeper that must be grappled with rather than ignored.
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