On the illusion of separation – Limor Yehuda in Haaretz:

‘The Israeli government recently approved the long-stalled E1 settlement plan – a neighborhood strategically placed east of Jerusalem that would cut the West Bank in two. Many observers fear that once E1 is built, the door to a viable Palestinian state will be sealed. This is why E1 has long been known as the "doomsday settlement."’

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‘Separation, by contrast, emerged in Israeli discourse much later by various former prime ministers. From Yitzhak Rabin's fear of "demographic threat," to Ehud Barak's "we are here, they are there," to Ariel Sharon's "disengagement," separation meant physical and demographic disentanglement. It assumed that peace could only be achieved once Israelis and Palestinians stopped living together – once walls and checkpoints obscured each side from the other.’

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‘In any conceivable two-state arrangement, there will be Israelis living under Palestinian sovereignty and Palestinians living under Israeli sovereignty. In Jerusalem, two capitals will overlap. If domination continues, these mixed realities will be a recipe for renewed disaster.’

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‘This vision is not utopian. It draws on experiences from other deeply divided places – such as Northern Ireland and Bosnia – where sovereignty and cooperation coexist in creative, if imperfect, ways. It is anchored in necessity.
Israelis and Palestinians cannot escape each other. The only choice is between domination and fair partnership.
E1, like the strategy of ethnic cleansing, is meant to foreclose Palestinian nationalism and Palestinian liberation. But if we revisit our assumptions about partition and reclaim the principle of equality, we can expose this project as neither inevitable nor irreversible.
The two-state solution is not dead. What is dying is the illusion of separation.’

Read the article here.

The doomsday settlement, among other doomsday settlements.
An interesting take on why the-two-state-solution is not dead yet, but this two-state-solution very much looks like the one-state-solution, in a slightly upgraded version.

Anything better than the doomsday scenarios.

Although diasporism remains an option, utopia.