Episode 28: The Asymptotic 'Two State Solution' (Part I)
The idea that there exists an ongoing effort to achieve a \u201ctwo-state solution\u201d in Israel and Palestine - often referred to as The Middle East Peace Process\u2122 - is uniformly taken for granted by American media. This "two-state solution" is always at different stages of viability, yet never quite works out. Presidents fail to achieve it; Palestinian violence makes it "more difficult"; Israeli settlements are "unhelpful" to it.\xa0
But how honest is this effort? How are nonstop obituaries for a phantom "process" helping to maintain the status quo, or worse? How much does this infinitely regressive effort deliberately mask an ongoing and active policy of ethnic cleansing by the Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza?\xa0
In Part I of this two-part episode, we discuss this "two-state" racket with Professor Noura Erakat.