'Need One Democratic State Where Jews and Arabs Are Equal and Treated Justly': Gideon Levy on Israel-Palestine Issue

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Description: Levy believes that Israelis and Palestinians need to now think of the unthinkable, i.e. a single state where they live as equal citizens with equal rights. He does not believe it will happen in his lifetime.

Levy believes that Israelis and Palestinians need to now think of the unthinkable, i.e. a single state where they live as equal citizens with equal rights. He does not believe it will happen in his lifetime.

Karan Thapar

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Gideon Levy, in conversation with Karan Thapar. Photo: The Wire

In an interview to mark the second anniversary of Hamas's attack on Israel which was swiftly followed by Israel's massive war on Gaza as well as to discuss President Trump's 20-point peace proposals, Gideon Levy, an internationally acclaimed award-winning columnist of Haaretz newspaper, who is often referred to as the conscience of Israel, argues that the solution to the Israel-Palestine problem is a single democratic state “from the river to the sea”, where Jews and Arabs are equal and treated justly.

In a conversation with Karan Thapar for The Wire, Levy says that he believes that after over 700,000 Israeli settlers forcibly occupied large parts of the West Bank, a two-state solution is no longer likely or feasible. Instead, as happened in South Africa, when apartheid ended, Israelis and Palestinians need to now think of what is often considered the unthinkable, i.e. a single state where they live as equal citizens with equal rights.

Levy accepts this would be the end of the Jewish state, and it would be the end of the dream of a Palestinian state. He does not believe it will happen in his lifetime. Nor does he believe there is massive support for this within Israel’s Jewish population or Palestinian Arabs. However, it is the one solution that is worth striving for.

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