The Reemergence of One-Statism

creasingly abnormal” among the democracies, which are steadily becoming multiethnic; is losing its Jewish population to emigration while Diaspora Jewry is flourishing; and is “one of the more dangerous places on earth in which to be Jewish” (apparently a reference to the actions and intentions of Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran). And the world’s “Jewish problem” has only been aggravated by Israel, as anti-Semitism burgeons in the Islamic world and, it would seem, in Europe and the United States as well wholly or partly in reaction to Israeli actions. Lazar favored a binational state “based on internationalism, secularism, and democracy.” How exactly Palestine’s Arabs would be persuaded to adopt “internationalism, secularism, and democracy”—for which they, like their brothers and sisters outside Palestine, are not famous—was not explained.

A far more sophisticated, thoughtful, and academic discourse, demonstrating that a one-state solution is increasingly inevitable given the continued expansion of Israeli settlements and the growing despair of Palestinians with regard to the progress being made toward a two-state denouement, was produced by Gary Sussman, of Tel Aviv University, in 2004. In “The Challenge to the Two-State Solution,” he argued, looking at trends in recent Israeli and Palestinian thinking, that “the legitimacy, basis and support for separation between the two peoples are steadily being eroded, primarily by unilateral Israeli actions. Theoretically, this process can be reversed, but at present there does not