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JewishJournal.com An Emerging One-State Israel-Palestine Reality By Rabbi John Rosove June 11, 2012 Many moderate Palestinian and non-violent two-state advocates have come to the conclusion that a one-state reality with a one-person, one-vote democracy represents the best way for Palestinians to get their Palestinian state.... Click for full article

washingtonpost.com One state for Palestinians and Israelis By Ahmed Moor March 2, 2012 Palestine and Israel are two parts of the same country — something those who have not been to the region may find hard to imagine. ...Moreover, one out of five Israelis is a Palestinian, and about one of every six residents of the occupied territories is a Jewish settler. ..The degree to which the country is a single, indivisible unit is sometimes underscored by the most mundane experiences. A Palestinian friend recently told me about being pulled over for speeding in the West Bank. The person who ticketed him was an Israeli army official....Yes, Palestine has been colonized out of existence, and the Israeli army is busy policing traffic. Click for full article

The 'Iranian Schindler' who saved Jews from the Nazis By Brian Wheeler BBC News, Washington December 20, 2011 Thousands of Iranian Jews and their descendants owe their lives to a Muslim diplomat in wartime Paris, according to a new book. In The Lion's Shadow tells how Abdol-Hossein Sardari risked everything to help fellow Iranians escape the Nazis. Click for full article

Israel official: Accepting Palestinians into Israel better than two states By Zvi Zrahiya and Haaretz Service May 29, 2010 Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said Thursday that he would rather accept Palestinians as Israeli citizens than divide Israel and the West Bank in a future two-state peace solution. Click for full article

Palestinians threaten Israel with 1-state solution By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH (AP) November 4, 2009 RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians should give up seeking an independent state and pursue a single country in which they would enjoy equal rights with Israelis, the chief Palestinian negotiator in Mideast peace talks said Wednesday. Click for full article

New York Times Op-Ed The One-State Solution January 21, 2009 Jews and Muslims are cousins descended from Abraham. Throughout the centuries both faced cruel persecution and often found refuge with one another. Arabs sheltered Jews and protected them after maltreatment at the hands of the Romans and their expulsion from Spain in the Middle Ages. Click for full article

NEWSWEEK The One-State Solution From the magazine issue dated Sep 29, 2008 The lack of progress, as well as the unmistakably expansionist reality on the ground and the growth in popularity of Hamas, have left little room for anyone seeking a positive future for Palestine. Except, that is, to rejuvenate the old idea of one binational, secular and democratic state where Jewish and Arab citizens live side by side in equality. Click for full article

You Don't Mess with Zohan: Sandler all the way June 06, 2008 Adam Sandler, who has proven many times that he can do obnoxious, comes across as sweet natured in this latest comedy, about an ultra-tough Mossad agent who fakes his death so he can pursue his dream, which is to go to New York City and become a hairstylist....He then flies to New York City and ends up working in a small hair salon owned by Dalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui), a beautiful Palestinian...."Here in America, we're the same," an Israeli immigrant says to a Palestinian. "We're just people trying to get jobs." A Palestinian terrorist signals his conversion to peace by confessing to Zohan that he really wants to be a shoe salesman. "I love shoes," he says, in a thrilling whisper. Click for full article and be sure to order the Zohan DVD

Trita Parsi Treacherous Alliance 2007, Yale University Press Khomeini [of Iran] issued a "fatwa," a religious decree, declaring that Jews were to be protected. Few Iranian Jews take Ahmadinejad's anti-Israel rhetoric seriously, and they point to the fact that little has changed for Iranian Jews under him. "Anti-Semitism is not an eastern phenomenon, it's not an Islamic or Iranian phenomenon -- anti-Semitism is a European phenomenon," Ciamak Morsathegh, head of the Jewish hospital in Tehran, explained. Iran's forty synagogues, many of them with Hebrew schools, haven't been touched. Neither has the Jewish library, which boasts twenty thousand titles, or Jewish hospitals and cemeteries. Still, Iran's Jews have not sat idly by. The Jewish member of the Iranian Majlis, or parliament (most religious minorities are guaranteed a seat in the parliament), Maurice Mohtamed, has been outspoken in his condemnation of Ahmadinejad's comments. Click to order recommended book

Tony Judt - British Historian descended from a line of Lithuanian rabbis, helped promote the migration of British Jews to Israel Israel: The Alternative October 23, 2003 What if the binational solution were not just increasingly likely, but actually a desirable outcome? Click for full article

The Guardian - UK - Comment A unitary Arab-Jewish homeland could bring lasting peace to the Middle East September 29, 2003 By positing one homeland for both sides, the one-state solution not only does away with the conflict over history and mutual legitimisation, but has practical political implications as well. Both sides can maintain their "right of return" without this being at the expense of the other, and Israeli settlers would not need to be removed from where they are today. Jerusalem could truly become the shared capital of a unitary Arab-Jewish state. Click for full article