Two-state solution

Palestinians vote during the Palestinian local elections, in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh, April 25, 2026. (Flash90)

A dubious PA election could be the political opening Palestine needs

Driven by international pressure that lets Israel off the hook, the upcoming vote still gives Palestinians a rare chance to confront an obstinate leadership.

By Omar H. Rahman August 10, 2026

Dahlia Scheindlin (Oren Ziv)

PODCAST: Reckoning or reverting? Israeli society after the ceasefire

Dahlia Scheindlin explores the lessons Israelis are drawing from two years of war and why international pressure is the only path to a political settlement.

By +972 Magazine October 23, 2025

PODCAST: Rethinking Palestinian public opinion

Pollster Zayne Abudaka explains how Palestinians understand liberation and hope today — beyond the narrow language of statehood.

By +972 Magazine October 9, 2025

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View of graffiti painted by artists of different backgrounds, supporting the Palestinians, seen painted on the separation wall in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 21, 2024. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90

Forget symbolic statehood — the world must recognize Israeli apartheid

The push to recognize a Palestinian state creates the illusion of action, but delays the real remedies: sanctioning and isolating Israel's apartheid regime.

By Alaa Salama August 29, 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

The not-so-secret history of Netanyahu’s support for Hamas

From sabotaging Oslo to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict. Even after Oct. 7, argues historian Adam Raz, he's still advancing the same strategy.

By Ghousoon Bisharat November 11, 2024

WEF founder Klaus Schwab (left) on stage at the 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2023. (World Economic Forum/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

At Davos, talk of Palestinian prosperity without freedom is ‘a charade’

An outdated initiative for Israeli and Palestinian executives reflects the business world's unwillingness to tackle the conflict's root causes, say insiders.

By Hebh Jamal March 7, 2023

Young Palestinian men sit by a section of the separation wall in the West Bank city of Abu-Dis, September 29, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Does Israel-Palestine need any ‘state’ solution?

What does it mean to pursue regime change as a path for transformation in Israel-Palestine — and is it enough to bring about justice?

By Diana B. Greenwald July 28, 2021

Leader of the Joint List Ayman Odeh seen during a protest for coexistence in Tel Aviv, May 15, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ayman Odeh still wants to be Israel’s first Palestinian prime minister

In his first interview following the new government's formation, the Joint List head talks Ra’am’s decision to join the coalition, his steadfast support for two states, and why he thinks he can lead Israel's democratic camp to victory.

By Meron Rapoport July 5, 2021

The Israeli and American flags screened on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City to mark one year since the transfer of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, May 14, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

‘Equality’ is finally breaching Washington’s debate on Israel-Palestine

A policy paper centering equal rights for both peoples marks a radical break from the Israel-centric discourse of mainstream U.S. think tanks.

By Mitchell Plitnick May 6, 2021

Thousands of Palestinians pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City, marking the Muslim holiday of Eid Al Adha. Oct. 4, 2014. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Is Israeli-Palestinian confederation all it’s hyped up to be?

While it is fair to critique the viability of a two-state or one-state solution, the ambitious confederation model risks failing for the same reasons.

By Shira Efron and Evan Gottesman May 3, 2021

J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami speaking at the 2019 national conference in Washington, D.C., on October 27, 2019. (Gili Getz)

J Street finally wants the US to think beyond the two-state solution

With a one-state reality deepening in Israel-Palestine, the lobby group is shifting away from the model it has championed for years. Now it is turning to a new solution: confederation.

By Arianna Skibell April 16, 2021

Israeli troops fire tear gas at a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, Jan. 13, 2018. (Flash90)

‘What did the world give us?’ A letter to President Biden from Nabi Saleh

I used to defend the two-state solution as the Palestinians' path to liberation. But after three decades of the Oslo Accords, 'peace' itself is yet to be born.

By Bassem Tamimi January 27, 2021

Demolished structures seen in Cape Town's Marikana community, after the city's Anti-Land Invasion Unit began demolishing structures erected on a plot of land by the Abahlali baseMjondolo shack dwellers movement, January 9, 2014 (Shachaf Polakow/Activestills.org)

The Dispossessed: Palestine’s forgotten lesson from post-apartheid South Africa

Those looking to South Africa as a blueprint for the struggle against Israeli apartheid are doing a disservice by ignoring how racial capitalism has sustained inequality and oppression 30 years on.

By Joseph Dana November 19, 2020