{"id":3721,"date":"2016-12-03T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-26T20:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:17:46","slug":"epalestine-book-review-two-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2016\/12\/epalestine-book-review-two-state\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Two-State Delusion,’ a well-researched but mistitled saga of a failed peace process [Book Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cWhen they have no hope and no vision, they will go. As they did in 1948.\u201d<\/p>~Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) MK Bezalel Smotrich (Ha’aretz<\/a>, Dec. 1, 2016)<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/book-review-the-two-state-delusion\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

University of Massachusetts Boston professor Padraig O\u2019Malley\u2019s The Two-State Delusion<\/em>\u2019s 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<\/em> rather than the two-state paradigm itself, which has never yet been tested. A more accurate title would have been \u201cEulogy for a U.S.-Monopolized Peace Process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Sam’s full review on Huffington Post<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/bit.ly\/book-review-the-two-state-delusion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

University of Massachusetts Boston professor Padraig O\u2019Malley\u2019s The Two-State Delusion<\/em>\u2019s 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 \u201cEulogy for a U.S.-Monopolized Peace Process.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[948,942],"tags":[32,1349,1350,1353,1259,477,977,153,1301,40,117,1119,544,427,252,1216,1351,428,1352,1120,688,1275],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-sams-writings","tag-apartheid","tag-bezalel-smotrich","tag-camp-david","tag-diakonia-international-humanitarian-law-resource-centre","tag-dr-zbigniew-piotrowski","tag-fascism","tag-haaretz","tag-international-law","tag-israel-plo-final-status-talks","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-israeli-settlements-settlers-and-settler-colonialism","tag-one-state-solution","tag-oslo-peace-process","tag-padraig-omalley","tag-palestine-liberation-organization","tag-palestinian-center-for-policy-and-survey-research-pcpsr","tag-shlomo-ben-ami","tag-two-state-delusion","tag-thinking-the-unthinkable-a-sovereign-palestinian-state-essay","tag-two-state-solution","tag-walid-khalidi","tag-zionism-zionists"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9518,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/9518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}