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Leading Palestinian and Israeli scholars and activists
will be among the speakers at an unprecedented conference
to explore a one-state solution, at the School of Oriental
and African Studies (SOAS) in London on 17-18 November.
Organized by the London One State Group and the SOAS
Palestine Society, the conference, "Challenging the
Boundaries: A Single State in Israel/Palestine," will
explore new models for a just peace including bi-
nationalism, secular democracy, a 'state of all its
citizens' and federalism.
The London conference comes as prominent politicians
including US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and UK
Foreign Secretary David Milliband have recently warned
that the window for implementing a two-state solution is
fast closing. Israel has continued to block the establish-
ment of a Palestinian state by accelerating its coloniz-
ation of the occupied West Bank and tightening its starv-
ation siege of the occupied Gaza Strip, even as Rice makes
last ditch efforts to implement a partition.
"Unquestioned support for the two-state vision" among
international elites "remains firm despite the disastrous
failure of the peace process," a statement from the London
One State Group notes, thus necessitating efforts "to
broaden the discourse regarding the Israel-Palestine
conflict towards consideration of a One State vision as a
desirable and achievable alternative." The statement adds
that the "birth of the non-racial democracy in South Africa
and the implementation of the power sharing arrangement
in Northern Ireland have strengthened the belief that
partition is not the inevitable, nor necessarily the most
desirable resolution to the conflict."
Over the past several years the failure of the two-state
approach has led to a resurgence of interest in a one-state
solution and the London conference brings together many
who have written or spoken in favor of it.
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Those scheduled to participate include Nur Masalha, Ghada
Karmi, Ilan Pappe, Joseph Massad, Ali Abunimah, Haim
Bresheeth, Ghazi Falah, As'ad Ghanem, Leila Farsakh, Amnon
Raz-Krakotzkin, Nadim Rouhana, Omar Barghouti, Tikva Honig-
Parnass, Louise Bethlehem, Kathleen O'Connell, Gilbert
Achcar, Sumantra Bose, Haidar Eid, Eitan Bronstein, Eyal
Sivan, Yousef Faker el Deen and Rajaa Omari.
The two-day conference includes sessions on aspects of a
one-state solution including its rationale and historical
context, geography, geopolitics, citizenship and identity,
and rethinking the nation-state. Speakers will provide a
comparative perspective on conflicts in Ireland, India-
Pakistan, South Africa and Lebanon.
Sessions on grassroots activism will bring together one-
state advocates from all over Palestine and the Diaspora
including the One State Group based in Gaza, according to
the published program.
Conference organizers cite as one of their inspirations
the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said, who wrote in
1999, "The beginning is to develop something entirely
missing from both Israeli and Palestinian realities today:
the idea and practice of citizenship, not of ethnic or
racial community, as the main vehicle of coexistence."
The full conference program and details can be found at
http://onestate.net
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