One State Solution

An Israeli Settler I Want to Live Beside [Book Review]

by Sam Bahour | January 2, 2021 | Books, Writings

The author, Jeff Halper, is a long-time friend, a thought partner, a fellow activist, and someone for who I have the utmost respect. The first two-thirds of this book (how Historic Palestine has been colonized) makes it to my top recommended readings on Palestine/Israel. The last third (how Palestine and Israel can be liberated from the horrendous outcome of this colonization process) gets filed into my growing filing cabinet of grand ideas to get all stakeholders past their pasts and engaged in building a joint future worth living between the River and the Sea.

Huffington Post: The Two-State Solution’s Silver Bullet

by Sam Bahour | January 14, 2017 | Writings

Huffington Post: A speech on Palestine-Israel awaiting President Obama

by Sam Bahour | December 30, 2016 | Writings

‘The Two-State Delusion,’ a well-researched but mistitled saga of a failed peace process [Book Review]

by Sam Bahour | December 3, 2016 | Books, Writings

University of Massachusetts Boston professor Padraig O’Malley’s The Two-State Delusion’s title suggests that there is something paradoxical in persevering with a proposed solution of two states, Israel and Palestine, as a way forward; the thrust of the historical accounts and the arguments made, however, are actually geared more toward convincing the reader that what failed is the process rather than the two-state paradigm itself, which has never yet been tested. A more accurate title would have been “Eulogy for a U.S.-Monopolized Peace Process.”