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JAMIE JOHNSON cannot disagree with a veteran Palestinian activist who denies the viability of the two-state solution
PLAUSIBLE FUTURE? A flag for coexistence combining elements from the Israeli and Palestinian flag at a protest rally in Tel Aviv against Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, August 11 2018 [Yoram whistles/Wikipedia/CC]

One State – the only democratic future for Palestine-Israel
Ghada Karmi, Pluto Press, £14.99

WHEN Ban Ki-Moon recently returned from Israel to report that a “one-state reality” is effectively destroying any prospect of a two-state solution he was not throwing his weight behind the arguments made in this short, occasionally rambling, but easy-to-read book. 

As the former United Nations secretary-general added his pleas to the long line of doomed appeals for Israel to respect its obligations to create two states under 1993’s Oslo Accords, Ghada Karmi argues that this so-called “peace process” has long been irrelevant.
 
It’s hard to disagree with her. 

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