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Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism and the Case for One Democratic State
by Jeff Halper
(Pluto Press, £14.99)
THE IDEA of a single democratic state as a political solution for Palestine is nothing new. It was the policy of the Palestinian liberation movement, enshrined in the PLO Charter and only abandoned by the PLO in 1988 in favour of the two-state solution.
In this book Jeff Halper, a founder member of the recently established One Democratic State campaign, argues that Israel never intended the two-state solution to be a solution at all — instead, it was employed as a useful tool for managing the situation rather than solving it.
Meanwhile Israel has consolidated its repressive regime by splintering Palestinian lands with Israeli settlements linked by exclusive superhighways, policed by countless checkpoints and barriers including the apartheid wall.
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