Rashid Khalidi, professor of Arab Studies at Columbia, and the author of several clear-eyed studies of the Palestinians as well as sober assessments of the Israelis (to say nothing of U.S. foreign policy) is interviewed in Ha'aretz. His long years of thought and study provide this interview with a larger and clearer picture of what could happen in Israel/Palestine than we usually get in the MSM.Sample: "Q. So you think were headed for a one-state solution?"A. We already have a one-state solution. There is only one state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. There are two or three levels of citizenship or non-citizenship within the borders of that one sovereign state thats in control, or at least the state that decides everything that is important. When I go in, I dont go into a Palestinian state, I cross Israeli borders, whether its at the river or at Ben Gurion airport. So we have a one state solution, and thats what were going to have for the foreseeable future, unless the Israelis or people who have the ability will persuade the Israelis to reverse the dynamic that has made a two-state solution virtually impossible."Whole interview here.

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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