Summary
The single, secular, democratic state in all of Palestine/Israel that Makdisi advocates: praised in the front matter as “a brilliantly argued, against-the-grain plea for a one-state, secular, democratic solution” and recorded by Makdisi as having entered mainstream discourse by 2009 as the two-state alternative broke down (Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, PDF p.4, p.32-33).
Details
- Makdisi calls it “the idea of the one-state solution as the obvious just and peaceful resolution to the question of Palestine” and notes it was at first “dismissed as totally unrealistic and utopian” (PDF p.32).
- Its proponents are presented as a small number of people outside authority and power, opposed by the U.S. and Israeli governments, the Palestinian Authority, the major Palestinian parties and the Israeli lobby in Washington (PDF p.32).
- The book’s own argument for it belongs to its later chapters, not yet read in part 1.
Related pages
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, Saree Makdisi, Secular Democratic State