Mathias Mossberg & Mark LeVine 
One Land, Two States 
Israel and Palestine as Parallel States

One Land, Two States imagines a new vision for Israel and Palestine in a situation where the peace process has failed to deliver an end of conflict. ‘If the land cannot be shared by geographical division, and if a one-state solution remains unacceptable, ‘ the book asks, ‘can the land be shared in some other way?’



Leading Palestinian and Israeli experts along with international diplomats and scholars answer this timely question by examining a scenario with two parallel state structures, both covering the whole territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, allowing for shared rather than competing claims of sovereignty. Such a political architecture would radically transform the nature and stakes of the Israel-Palestine conflict, open up for Israelis to remain in the West Bank and maintain their security position, enable Palestinians to settle in all of historic Palestine, and transform Jerusalem into a capital for both of full equality and independence—all without disturbing the demographic balance of each state. Exploring themes of security, resistance, diaspora, globalism, and religion, as well as forms of political and economic power that are not dependent on claims of exclusive territorial sovereignty, this pioneering book offers new ideas for the resolution of conflicts worldwide.

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List of Illustrations

Foreword: Two States on One Land—Parallel States as an Option for Israel and Palestine

Álvaro de Soto

Preface

Mathias Mossberg and Mark Le Vine


1. One Land—Two States? An Introduction to the Parallel States Concept

Mathias Mossberg

2. Can Sovereignty Be Divided?

Jens Bartelson

3. Parallel Sovereignty: Dividing and Sharing Core State Functions

Peter Wallensteen

4. Security Strategy for the Parallel States Project: An Israeli Perspective

Nimrod Hurvitz and Dror Zeevi

5. Palestinian National Security

Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi

6. An Israel-Palestine Parallel States Economy by 235

Raja Khalidi

7. Economic Considerations in Implementing a Parallel States Structure

Raphael Bar-El

8. Parallel Sovereignty in Practice: Judicial Dimensions of a Parallel States Structure

Various authors, compiled by Mathias Mossberg

9. Religion in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: From Obstacle to Peace to Force for Reconciliation?

Mark Le Vine and Liam O’Mara IV

10. The Necessity for Thinking outside the Box

Hiba Husseini

11. Parallel Lives, Parallel States: Imagining a Different Future

Eyal Megged


Contributors

Index

Despre autor

Mark Le Vine is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, a contributing editor for Tikkun, and a senior columnist for Al Jazeera. He is the author of Overthrowing Geography and the coeditor of Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel (both from UC Press).Mathias Mossberg is a retired Swedish ambassador with extensive personal experience from the peace process and related track-two diplomacy as well as from mediation efforts in other conflicts. He is Senior Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden.