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The two-state solution is doomed; the one-state reality is here to stay
Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost, Ian S. Lustick brings fifty years as an analyst of the Arab-Israeli dispute to bear on this question and offers a provocative explanation of why continued attempts to divide the land will have no more success than would negotiations to establish a one-state solution.
Basing his argument on the decisiveness of unanticipated consequences, Lustick shows how the combination of Zionism''s partially successful Iron Wall strategy for dealing with Arabs, an Israeli political culture saturated with what the author calls Holocaustia, and the Israel lobby''s dominant influence on American policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict scuttled efforts to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Yet, he demonstrates, it has also unintentionally set the

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    Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
    Publication Date: 8/6/2024
    ISBN13: 9781512826869, 978-1512826869
    ISBN10: 1512826863

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    The two-state solution is doomed; the one-state reality is here to stay
    Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost, Ian S. Lustick brings fifty years as an analyst of the Arab-Israeli dispute to bear on this question and offers a provocative explanation of why continued attempts to divide the land will have no more success than would negotiations to establish a one-state solution.
    Basing his argument on the decisiveness of unanticipated consequences, Lustick shows how the combination of Zionism''s partially successful Iron Wall strategy for dealing with Arabs, an Israeli political culture saturated with what the author calls Holocaustia, and the Israel lobby''s dominant influence on American policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict scuttled efforts to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Yet, he demonstrates, it has also unintentionally set the

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