Omar Baddar: What It Will Take To Break The [Israel-Palestine] Stalemate

"If only a speedy transition to a one-state solution with equality for all were a probable outcome, we could all celebrate the death of the two-state solution together. Unfortunately, we’re far more likely to be looking at decades of occupation, oppression, and violence before any type of permanent solution arises; which is why it is hard to overstate the magnitude of this critical moment and what must be done to seize it." Omar Baddar

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/08/what-it-will-take-to-break-the-stalemate.html

What It Will Take To Break The Stalemate

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After two decades of a U.S.-led “peace process,” we are no closer to achieving an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement today than we were in the early 1990s. Indeed, we’re probably much farther away now, as Israel took advantage of the so-called “peace process” to drastically expand its colonization of the occupied Palestinian territories (in direct violation of the spirit of Oslo), growing the settler population to more than 600,000 and making a viable two-state solution almost implausible...READ MORE

Omar Baddar is a DC-based political scientist and Mideast analyst. You can follow him on Twitter at @OmarBaddar

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