{"id":3788,"date":"2016-02-12T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:55:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:55:47","slug":"epalestine-brookings-no-unilateral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2016\/02\/epalestine-brookings-no-unilateral\/","title":{"rendered":"BROOKINGS: No unilateral Israeli path to two states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Brookings Institution<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">SERIES: Markaz: Debating Israeli-Palestinian futures<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>No unilateral Israeli path to two states<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Sam Bahour<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">February 12, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/palestinian_flag004_16x9-760044-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/palestinian_flag004_16x9-760044-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3789\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The composition and track record of the current Israeli government leads   Palestinians to expect very little from Israel in the way of advancing   peace. After five decades of military occupation, and repeated failures   of two decades of bilateral negotiations based on the Oslo Accords,   there is a clear need for new ideas. But the proposals offered by Amos   Yadlin&#8217;s post last month, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/markaz\/posts\/2016\/01\/15-two-states-four-paths-israeli-palestinian-yadlin\" name=\"&amp;lid={BD89C9FC-89F6-4BD6-9B43-A014562020A2}&amp;lpos=loc:body\" target=\"_blank\">Two states, four paths for achieving them<\/a>,&#8221; do not accord with basic realities on the Palestinian side, and as such do not offer a viable pathway to a two-state outcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ON AT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/No-unilateral-Israeli-path-to-two-states\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/No-unilateral-Israeli-path-to-two-states<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sambahour\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> * <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Sam-Bahour-234276170236937\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> * <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.ePalestine.ps<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brookings Institution SERIES: Markaz: Debating Israeli-Palestinian futures No unilateral Israeli path to two states Sam Bahour February 12, 2016 \u200b The composition and track record of the current Israeli government leads Palestinians to expect very little from Israel in the way of advancing peace. After five decades of military occupation, and repeated failures of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3789,"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":2,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[490,491,40,158,1120,13,492],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amos-yadlin","tag-brookings","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-occupied-territories","tag-two-state-solution","tag-un","tag-unilateral"],"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","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as <a href=\"https:\/\/aim.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder &amp; Emeritus Member of <a href=\"http:\/\/a4vpe.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at <a href=\"https:\/\/justvision.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/1994\/10\/homeland-oral-histories-of-palestine-and-palestinians-book-recommended\" rel=\"noopener\">HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamBahour\" rel=\"noopener\">@SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","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=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9010,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions\/9010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}