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Fathom Highlight | Don’t believe the hype: the settlers have not made the two-state solution unachievable / 28 March / 2017

This week’s Fathom Highlight is Orni Petruschka and Gilead Sher, co-Chairmen of Blue White Future, who argue that settlements are not an insurmountable obstacle to a two-state solution, which is still achievable and imperative to the respective parties. We are also delighted to publish an exchange between Chaim Gans and Michael Walzer on Gans’s book A Political Theory for the Jewish People.

Our voice of the week is President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, who became the first African leader to address the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC, on 26 March 2017.

Our image of the week is Israeli police using a water cannon to disperse demonstrators protesting against the arrest of a Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with a recruitment order, 23 March 2017.

1967 | Don’t believe the hype: the settlers have not made the two-state solution unachievable

by Orni Petruschka and Gilead Sher

After 50 years of Israeli control over the West Bank, increasing numbers believe that a ‘two states for two peoples’ solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is impossible. These pessimists point to the total lack of trust between the two parties and the supposed irreversibility of the settlement enterprise, with some 590,000 people now living beyond the former 1949 armistice or Green Line. In this article, Blue White Future co-chairmen Gilead Sher and Orni Petruschka argue that while the obstacles are...

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On Chaim Gans on the Jewish Diaspora
by Michael Walzer

Fathom has invited a series of writers to respond to Chaim Gans’s A Political Theory for the Jewish People (Oxford University Press, 2016). An interview...

Response to Michael Walzer’s ‘On Chaim Gans on the Jewish Diaspora’
by Chaim Gans

Writing in Fathom Michael Walzer responded to the discussion of diaspora Jews in Chaim Gans’s book A Political Theory for the Jewish People. Here Gans...

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