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The One-state Solution: A Breakthrough For Peace In The Israeli-palestinian Deadlock Fourth Printing Edition

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The Israeli "security fence" (or "apartheid wall" in the formulation of critics) carving the West Bank into isolated cantonments and the de facto integration of the Israeli and Palestinian economies, among other "facts on the ground" have effectively killed off the possibility that the two-state solution long advocated as a solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict can possibly lead to long term peace and security in the Middle East, argues Tilley (political science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges). She views a one-state plan as the only remaining option. Recognizing the major political impediments such a plan faces, she tries to show the obstacles as surmountable with discussion of what a single democratic state might actually look like and a critical questioning of the political assumptions of modern Zionism. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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0472115138
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978-0472115136
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Fourth Printing
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Univ of Michigan Pr
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January 1, 2005
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English
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6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches
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276 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Univ of Michigan Pr; Fourth Printing edition (January 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 276 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0472115138
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0472115136
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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Professor Virginia Tilley holds an MA in Contemporary Arab Studies from Georgetown University (1988)and an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1993 and 1997 respectively). Her first field is Middle East studies with a focus on Israel-Palestine, but she also has robust research experience in Central America, post-apartheid South Africa and Oceania (Fiji and the small island states of the south Pacific).

In her research, Dr. Tilley combines constructivist theory of international relations and the comparative politics of nation-building to examine how ethnic, racial and national identities have been imagined and manipulated to serve state power in the context of modern nation-building. Her research has included working among the Maya and Nahua indigenous peoples in Central America, the Jewish and Palestinian peoples in the Middle East, the i-Taukei and Indo-Fijians in Fiji and the multiple identities operating in post-apartheid South Africa. Reflecting her interest in applied theory and policy-making, she has concentrated on exploring how such identities can be re-imagined or re-mapped to improve prospects for conflict resolution.

In addition to numerous articles and policy papers on these questions, Dr. Tilley is author of three books: Seeing Indians: A Study of Race, Nation and Power in El Salvador (University of New Mexico Press, 2005), which examines the historical construction of indianidad (“Indian-ness”) in Latin American nation-building; The One State Solution (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), which offers a pragmatic analysis of the one- and two-state solutions to the conflict in Israel-Palestine; and, as volume editor and co-author, Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Pluto Press, 2012), a legal study of whether Israel’s policies in the OPT are consistent with apartheid and colonialism. At Southern Illinois University, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in ethnic and racial ideology and conflict, nation-building, humanitarian intervention, and Middle East politics.

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Rogue apartheid Israel

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2017

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Required reading for Americans befuddled by US support for the Apartheid State of Israel.

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JGH

The One-Book Solution

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2005

For anyone who is curious about the conflict in Israel-Palestine, for anyone

who would like to know the the whys and wherefores of this dispute that has

lasted for over a century, for anyone who doesn't have a lot of time on

their hands to read all the available literature on the subject (and no one

has that much time), just spend a couple of evenings with this book and you

will have a good handle on what is really happening over there and what

needs to be done to find peace between these Semitic peoples.

For anyone who is curious enough to look up the maps of the proposed

division of what was once called Palestine into two states, Israel and

Palestine, it is quite obvious: the 2-state solution cannot possibly happen.

In fact, as Tilley makes abundantly clear, the 2-state solution really never

existed as a factual possibility - it was a propagandistic diversion from the

real issue - how the Arabs and Jews in this tiny land could live together

without killing each other. It isn't as complicated as many would like you

to believe. Both Israelis and Palestinians want and need the same thing -

a place where they can raise their children in safety and enjoy God's

blessings - by the way, its the same God for both of them - but both want

the same land.

Why one group, the Israelis, should claim that their God gave them title to

the land that was once called Palestine and has been inhabited by people,

now called Palestinians, for centuries is beyond me. They claim it is decreed

in the Bible but one can read many interpretations into biblical texts - such

as, white immigrants to North America are manifestly destined by God

to remove, subjugate or destroy all indigenous people, because they had

suntans, and of course because they happened to be in the way.

What Virginia Tilley does is cut through all this crap and bring us to where

we are now. Israel-Palestine, in particular the West Bank (since they have

recently removed the settlements from Gaza), is so divided by immense

settlements (some are actually small cities) and roads to service these

settlements - much as Ariel Sharon predicted long ago with his

cut-them-up-like-a-pastrami-sandwich, facts-on-the-ground strategy - that

the possible establishment of two states is finished, dead, fuggedaboutit.

There is no way in hell that any Israeli politician can advocate the

dismantlement of these settlements which would entail moving hundreds of

thousands of Israelis to some other place in Israel. Therefore there is simply

no room or resources remaining for any second state to be established.

Another solution that is frequently mentioned, particularly by Zionist

fanatics, is that all the Arabs now living either in the occupied territories or

Israel proper be forcibly "transferred" to Jordan or other Arab countries

and be done with. After all, they say, there is so much Arab land and so

little for Israel. Tilley dismisses this possibility, a brutal ethnic cleansing

the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Holocaust, as unlikely due to

international outrage. I am not so confident.

But what about the idea that these two peoples can live together in the

same place? For that I suggest reading this book. If there is one book that

I could recommend on the Israel-Palestine issue, this book is it. I call it

The One-Book Solution.

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J. L. Spates

Opening a "Forbidden Debate"

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2005

The great advantage of Virginia Tilley's new book, in this commentator's eyes, is that it should reintroduce an issue that, for reasons much too complex to go into here, has long been "off the table": the hypothesis that the only viable solution to the Palestinian-Israeli problem is to find a way for the disputing and warring sides to live together. In the early parts of her book, Tilley argues that the policy of "in-fill" of Jewish settlements into areas that might have, once, been part of a possible (if resource-poor, surrounded-by hostile others) Palestinian homeland, have made such a homeland utterly unfeasible. Given this, the only solution is to create a single state wherein, in the creation of that state, the two sides have worked long and hard to find ways to accommodate their differences. Tilley is of course powerfully aware that the practical obstacles--and arguments against--such a solution are enormous, but no more so, she contends, than the practical obstacles and arguments facing any serious two state solution. In the latter part of the book, Tilley attempts to wend her way through the rock and a hard place she has "created," as she tries to meet objections and "pave the way" for serious discussion of the issue. The only reason I give this book a "four" instead of a "five" is that, by book's end, it isn't clear, to me at least, that the "one-state solution" is going to work either--even if (and it's a big "if") those involved in the conflict get down to brass tacks concerning her thesis. However, that's a minor quibble: for generations, the problem has proved intractable and she should hardly be held responsible for not "solving absolutely" a conundrum that has perplexed luminaries and people of good will--on both sides--for a half century and more. But this much she has done--and it is much: a serious student of the region and its issues, a scholar empathetic with the problems faced by each side--particularly with the problems faced by Palestinians--she has given us a clear, sophisticated, well-argued "new idea" to consider about a major world problem. Her book's great contribution is its ability to put before us, seriously, an alternative way to continue intelligent debate about the central issues and enormous suffering going on in that small, incredibly important, seemingly God-forsaken, part of the world she takes as her subject. Very much worth reading and debating, in other words.

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Johannes Molgaard

What we need to know

Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2017

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A very well researched and written full review of the situation in Israel-Palestine and the only reasonable and just solution to it, with a clear analysis of all the possible difficulties both parties face.

Antoine Elias Raffoul

A book which takes all arguments head on...and wins

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2010

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There have been many books written about Palestine and Israel. Most of them deal with archival facts and figures relating to the Palestine/Israel tragedy.

Virginia Tilley's book takes each and every position put forward by all sides in the conflict, especially those for whom the two-state solution provided the easy way out, and tackles them head on. This seminal and timely work was written back in 2005. Since that time, the two-state solution has been dying a slow death, thanks to Israel's colonisation, annexation and expropriation of Palestinian land. Israel's creation of 'facts on the ground' are seriously and clearly analysed and argued by Dr Tilley thus making today's talk of 'a freeze on settlement building' sound like hog-wash.

There already exists a one state in historic Palestine. What it lacks is democracy. So, get the book and get real.

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The harsh facts and the inevitability of the one-state solution.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2015

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Virginia Tilley is an academic with a unique insight into modern history and international relations. Her argument for the one state solution as apposed to the widely talked about two-state solution puts the status quo into the right context.

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The book largely focuses on the settlements as being the major obstacle to any settlement. She argues that it is very difficult to imagine that the currently city-like settlements in the West Bank could under any circumstances be evacuated, removed or even handed over to the Palestinian Authority. The facts on the ground these settlements, and of course their roads & the separation wall, created have in effect obliterated any chance of a congruous , viable Palestinian state next to Israel. What we would have, she argues, is a ghetto-like state that will always be impoverished, deprived and fully dependent on Israel's mercy. Such a state will never cease to be a security risk.

The chapter on the influence of Zionism and the geo-strategic and religious significance of the settlements is particularly interesting. It's a well researched and highly controversial that Tilley tackled with solid evidence and unique intellectual rigour.

The Palestinian demographic 'thread' is also a good case for supporting the one-state solution, she states. She also tackles the Israeli-Palestinian economic dependencies, asserting that a Palestinian state - economically independent - will not survive without Israel's cooperation (for geographical and political reasons), and Israel's huge revenues from the West Bank and Gaza in the form of exported commodities and raw materials cannot be overlooked.

The author cleverly raises the issue of water and natural resources in the West Bank, which Israel majorly controls. One third of Israel's water comes from the West Bank and abandoning it will surely be problematic. Tilley uses facts and statistics to consolidate her points.
These arguments and more build towards the one-state solution, which Tilley believes is an inevitability.

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